“Yet the myth persists that genetic determinism is a more implacable kind of fate than social determinism.”
Source: Genome (1999), Chapter 22 “Free Will” (p. 308)
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Clauses of treaties determine their affections.”
Le destin des Etats est arbitre du leur,
Et l'ordre des traités règle tout dans leur cœur.
Rodogune, act III, scene iv.
Rodogune (1644)