The average age of the world's civilisations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from great courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependency back again to bondage.
-- Sir Alex Fraser Tyler (1742-1813) Scottish jurist and historian Source: The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic, c. 1799
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
-- H.L. Mencken
This was all so predictable. Free will is somewhat overrated...
Ouch.
peace and pot
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. - Henry D. Thoreau
All the world's problems can be fixed in a garden. Geoff Lawton
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is the inability to understand the exponential function. - Dr. Albert Bartlett
A vision without resources is a hallucination.
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