“Life did not take over the world by combat,
but by networking.”
Lynn Margulis (1938–2011) American evolutionary biologist
Source: Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
“As for us, our days of combat are over.”
"The Soldier's Faith" Memorial Day address at Harvard University (30 May 1895) http://people.virginia.edu/~mmd5f/holmesfa.htm. <br class="br">1890s <br class="br">Context: As for us, our days of combat are over. Our swords are rust. Our guns will thunder no more. The vultures that once wheeled over our heads must be buried with their prey. Whatever of glory must be won in the council or the closet, never again in the field. I do not repine. We have shared the incommunicable experience of war; we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top.
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