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"At a very early stage in history we are encountering "survivorship bias" - the fact that only the best results tend to show up in the history books."
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"The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force."
— George Bancroft
Politics1800–1891
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