Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don’t. – Lord Raglan
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Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? – Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, vol III, book V, chapter 7
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. – Richard P. Feynman
You always think that 70 is the end of the road: Somebody died when they were 73 good life. Youre closer to death, and you better make sure you dont waste too much of your time doing things you dont want to do. No point in saying things you dont believe in. – Ian Mckellen
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power let fortunes bubbles rise and fall who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all. – John Greenleaf Whittier