"We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress."

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Source : Robert M. Sapolsky (2007). “A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

Robert M. Sapolsky

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“McDonald's announced that it's considering a more humane way of slaughtering its animals. You know they fatten them up and then kill them. You know the same thing they do to their customers, isn't it?”
“According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of man. Wars result from selfishness, from misdirected aggressive impulses, from stupidity.”

Source : Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.16, Columbia University Press
“You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isnâ€™t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesnâ€™t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.”
“Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.”

Source : Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1727, Random House
“All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.”
“In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. ("A Short Guide To The City")”
“There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done.”
“If you have reservations about the system and want to change it, the democratic argument goes, do so within the system: put yourself forward as a candidate for political office, subject yourself to the scrutiny and the vote of fellow citizens. Democracy does not allow for politics outside the democratic system. In this sense, democracy is totalitarian.”

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