"Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives."

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Source : "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed". Book by Jared Diamond, 2005.

Jared Diamond

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“This modern craze for putting the young in positions of authority - headmasters in their thirties, bishops without a gray hair on their heads, generals who scarcely need to use a razor - ever since it took hold the world's gone steadily downhill.”
“If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know.”

Source : "Mark Morris Interview: Dance Is What I Do". Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 30, 2010.
“The gambling supply house catalog is distinctly not the safest place to learn about cheating devices, beware of catalog men.”

Source : John Scarne (1980). “Scarne on dice”, Random House Value Pub
“I will say that the thing that I use too much, and I need to stop, but the F-word is pretty great. When you say it, it's so viscerally strong. It also serves as a great punctuation point - it can really emphasize how dumb something is.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.”
“If you're going to be called a musicianship, you have to be able to play.”
“I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains.”
“Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.”

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