The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture. - Jacob Bronowski - Quotesmemo.com

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At the moment we have a critical situation in Greece. Even as we speak, where there is an open attempt by the EU to destroy Syriza by splitting it. There is a German obstinacy and utter refusal to seriously consider an alternative. The reason isn't even a lack of money, because money swims around the EU coffers endlessly, and they could write off the debt tomorrow if they wanted. But they don't want to do so, because of the election of a left-wing government. They want to punish Syriza in public, to humiliate it so that this model doesn't go any further than Greece.

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Jacob Bronowski

The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.

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Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape, he is the shaper of the landscape.

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That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution -- not biological, but cultural evolution. . . "The Ascent of Man.

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The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well. And having done it well, he loves to do it better.

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