Jared Diamond book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005)
Source: Animal Farm
Jared Diamond book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Page 498
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005)
“All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.”
Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist
“The theory of Communism may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
Source: The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848), Section 2, paragraph 13.
“No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words”
Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine
Edwin Abbott Abbott book Flatland
Source: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884), PART I: THIS WORLD, Chapter 12. Of the Doctrine of our Priests
Context: As to the doctrine of the Circles it may briefly be summed up in a single maxim, "Attend to your Configuration." Whether political, ecclesiastical, or moral, all their teaching has for its object the improvement of individual and collective Configuration — with special reference of course to the Configuration of the Circles, to which all other objects are subordinated.It is the merit of the Circles that they have effectually suppressed those ancient heresies which led men to waste energy and sympathy in the vain belief that conduct depends upon will, effort, training, encouragement, praise, or anything else but Configuration.
Annie Besant (1847–1933) British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator
Source: Initiation, The Perfecting of Man (1923)
Dan Quayle (1947) American politician, lawyer
Attributed in the Quayle Quarterly, a short-lived publication about Quayle's gaffes
Attributed
“To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.”
W.E.B. Du Bois book The Souls of Black Folk
Source: The Souls of Black Folk