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QotD

posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2005-04-24

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2005-04-08:

"The values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs over adversity." -- Jared Diamond in Collapse, describing how the "social glue" of the Norse that allowed them to master Greenland's difficulties also led to their undoing.
(submitted to the mailing list by Matt Griffin)

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