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“There are no gods, no nations, no money and no human rights, except in our collective imagination.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Evolution has made Homo sapiens, like other social mammals, a xenophobic creature. Sapiens instinctively divide humanity into two parts, ‘we’ and ‘they’.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“History isn’t a single narrative, but thousands of alternative narratives. Whenever we choose to tell one, we are also choosing to silence others. Human”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“our DNA still thinks we are in the savannah.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Poverty, sickness, wars, famines old age and death itself were not the inevitable fate of humankind. They were simply the fruits of our ignorance.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Romanticism, which encourages variety, meshes perfectly with consumerism.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Homo sapiens has no natural rights, just as spiders, hyenas and chimpanzees have no natural rights.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Gender is a race in which some of the runners compete only for the bronze medal.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“People rarely appreciate their ignorance, because they lock themselves inside an echo chamber of like-minded friends and self-confirming news feeds, where their beliefs are constantly reinforced and seldom challenged.3”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“Earlier traditions usually formulated their theories in terms of stories. Modern science uses mathematics.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Religion cannot be equated with superstition, because most people are unlikely to call their cherished beliefs ‘superstitions’. We always believe in ‘the truth’. It’s only other people who believe in superstitions.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

“What some people hope to get by studying, working or raising a family, others try to obtain far more easily through the right dosage of molecules. This is an existential threat to the social and economic order, which is why countries wage a stubborn, bloody and hopeless war on biochemical crime.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

“Christians slaughtered Christians by the millions to defend slightly different interpretations of the religion of love and compassion.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“If modernity has a motto, it is ‘shit happens’. On”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“[Many people] are happy to follow the advice of their smartphones or to take whatever drug the doctor prescribes, but when they hear of upgraded superhumans, they say: 'I hope, I will be dead before that happens”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“Consumerism tells us that in order to be happy we must consume as many products and services as possible.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no laws, and no justice outside the common imagination of human beings.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Change Is the Only Constant”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“Look, if you’re going to get better, you have to push yourself. If you push yourself, you’re going to fall. If you’re not falling, you’re not pushing. Falling is part of getting better.”
― Darren Hardy, The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride

“If you want to have more, you have to become more. You have to grow into your goals.”
― Darren Hardy, The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride

“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“You alone are responsible for what you do, don’t do, or how you respond to what’s done to you.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“In essence, you make your choices, and then your choices make you.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
― George Carlin

“If knowledge is power, knowing what we don’t know is wisdom.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Thinking like a scientist involves more than just reacting with an open mind. It means being actively open-minded. It requires searching for reasons why we might be wrong—not for reasons why we must be right—and revising our views based on what we learn.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Ordinary people may not understand artificial intelligence and biotechnology, but they can sense that the future is passing them by.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century