"History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."

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Source : Jared Diamond (2011). “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition”, p.322, Penguin

Jared Diamond

#Simplicity Quotes #Consistency Quotes #Complicated Quotes

“You go see 'Timothy Green,' and tell me if it doesn't rock your world. I loved it. I loved every frame of it.”
“I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that”
“True worship is obedience to God for no other reason than that you delight in God.”
“If it is gay, ribald and lascivious night-life you are after, Israel is not the place for you. The night clubs you do find are nearer in spirit to a YMCA than to dens of iniquity.”
“As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of - the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie.”
“I always tell other people to protect against the downside, and not risk roughing on new ventures, but I never stuck to that rule myself.”
“In many parts of the world-including Polynesia, north Africa & the Middle East-public dancing that focused on a physically linked couple would have been unthinkable, a violation of communal propriety.”

Source : Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books
“My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.”

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