"Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of city dwellers from crowd diseases."

-- Jared Diamond

#Self Quotes #Europe Quotes #Cities Quotes

“It is through our anger and hatred that we transform people into enemies.”
“But not all scars showed, did they?”

Source : Eileen Wilks (2012). “Mortal Ties”, p.53, Penguin
“Denounce useless guilt. Donâ€™t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.”
“When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.”
“A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.”
“And thus I aspire to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named so that I would not build on another man's foundation.”
“We are the women men warned us about.”
“I don't approve of the use of animals for any purpose that involves touching them - caging them.”

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