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“Of all known liquids water is probably the most studied and least understood”
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“I thought maybe we’d get all these engineers together and sit around a table. […] I felt that engineers were different from other people, that they were interested in combating nature, that they were above politics […] But I was naive”
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“Alexander himself, in the hour of his triumph,
was conquered by the soul of the East; he married
(among several ladies) the daughter of Darius; he adopted the Persian diadem and robe of state; he introduced into Europe the Oriental notion of the divine right of kings; and at last he astonished a sceptic Greece by announcing, in magnificent
Eastern style, that he was a god. Greece laughed; and
Alexander drank himself to death.”
― The story of philosophy [Hardcover]
was conquered by the soul of the East; he married
(among several ladies) the daughter of Darius; he adopted the Persian diadem and robe of state; he introduced into Europe the Oriental notion of the divine right of kings; and at last he astonished a sceptic Greece by announcing, in magnificent
Eastern style, that he was a god. Greece laughed; and
Alexander drank himself to death.”
― The story of philosophy [Hardcover]
“Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not to their own facts”
― Coromandel: A Personal History of South India
― Coromandel: A Personal History of South India
“The equation of taxation and theft is as old as extortion”
― Work: A History of How we spend our Time
― Work: A History of How we spend our Time
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