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  1. C.G. Jung _ Psychological Types

    The alchemist saw the union of opposites under the symbol of the tree, and it is therefore not surprising that the unconscious of present-day man, who no longer feels at home in his world and can base his existence neither on the past that is no more nor on the future that is yet to be, should hark back to the symbol of the cosmic tree rooted in this world and growing up to heaven - the tree that is also man. In the history of symbols this tree is described as the way of life itself, a growing into that which eternally is and does not change; which springs from the union of opposites and, by its eternal presence, also makes that union possible. It seems as if it were only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own "existence" and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger.
    book-quotehistoryexistenceunconscious

  2. Jared Diamond _ Guns, Germs, and Steel: The

    Thanks to this availability of suitable wild mammals and plants, early peoples of the Fertile Crescent could quickly assemble a potent and balanced biological package for intensive food production. That package comprised three cereals, as the main carbohydrate sources; four pulses, with 20-25 percent protein, and four domestic animals, as the main protein sources, supplemented by the generous protein content of wheat; and flax as a source of fiber and oil {termed linseed oil: flax seeds are about 40 percent oil}. Eventually, thousands of years after the beginnings of animal domestication and food production, the animals also began to be used for milk, wool, plowing, and transport. Thus, the crops and animals of the Fertile Crescent's first farmers came to meet humanity's basic economic needs: carbohydrate, protein, fat, clothing, traction, and transport.
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  3. Jared Diamond _ Collapse: How Societies Choose

    Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many other past societies also struggled to solve. Some of those past societies failed {like the Greenland Norse} and others succeeded ... The past offers us a rich database from which we can learn in order that we may keep on succeeding.
    book-quotehistorylearningpast

  4. Jared Diamond _ Collapse: How Societies Choose

    For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societies' responses also make a difference.
    book-quotehistoryenvironmentenvironmental-determinism

  5. Jared Diamond _ Guns, Germs, and Steel: The

    The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas.
    book-quotehistorywargenocide

  6. Jared Diamond _ Guns, Germs, and Steel: The

    Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of city dwellers from crowd diseases.
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  7. Jared Diamond _ Guns, Germs, and Steel: The

    Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by farmers. The spread of farming from those few sites of origin usually did not occur as a result of the hunter-gatherers' elsewhere adopting farming; hunter-gatherers tend to be conservative.... Instead, farming spread mainly through farmers' outbreeding hunters, developing more potent technology, and then killing the hunters or driving them off of all lands suitable for agriculture.
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  8. Jared Diamond _ Collapse: How Societies Choose

    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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  9. Jared Diamond _ Collapse: How Societies Choose

    Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes {of the various societies' histories} towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.
    book-quotehistorysocietysuccess

  10. Jared Diamond _ Guns, Germs, and Steel: The

    Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
    book-quotehistorywarpossession

  11. Don DeLillo _ Libra

    We will follow the bullet trajectories backwards to the lives that occupy the shadows, actual men who moan in their dreams.
    book-quotehistoryconspiracies

  12. Don DeLillo _ Underworld

    This happened back east of course. I've heard that term a lot since coming to this part of the country. But I never think of the term as a marker of geography. It's a reference to time, a statement about time, about all the densities of being and experience, it's time disguised, it's light-up time, shifting smoky time tricked out as some locus of stable arrangement. When people use that term they're talking about the way things used to be before they moved out here, the way the world used to be, not just New Jersey or South Philly, or before their parents moved, or grandparents, and about the way things still exist in some private relativity theory, some smoky shifting mind dimension, or before the other men and women came this way, the ones in Conestoga wagons, a term we learned in grade school, a back-east term, stemming from the place where the wagons were made. {pg.333}
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