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Jared Diamond

"But this was the only way of life that humans knew for their first 6m years on the planet. In giving it up over the past few thousand years, we have lost our vulnerability to disease and cold and wild animals, but we have also lost good ways to bring up children, look after old people, stave off diabetes and heart disease and understand the real dangers of everyday life."

Source : "Jared Diamond: what we can learn from tribal life" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2013.

Jared Diamond

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“As musicians it's often difficult. You go to a dinner party and most people treat you like some kind of exotic animal and in a way like you don't have any problems and that it's all fantastic andÂ glamorousÂ and that youÂ wake up in the morning, you kick the groupies out of bed, you roll onto the floor onto a needle, right, which fills you with a lovely substance, you roll into the gutter and you stare at the moon and out comes beautiful poetry. The fact of the matter is that that's nonsense. It's a lot of hard work.”
“Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store.”

Source : 'In praise of a contented mind' (1588); attributed
“We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.”
“All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.”
“China is now suffering from poverty, not from unequal distribution of wealth. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the methods of Marx can, of course, be used; a class war can be advocated to destroy the inequalities. But in China, where industry is not yet developed, Marx's class war and dictatorship of the proletariat are impracticable.”

Source : "Capital and the State". Book by Sun Yat-sen, 1924.
“I don't take a scene or word for granted.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.”
“Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You."”

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