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“Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.”

Ends Whole Happens Mistake Accidents Chains Just One Epitaph One Mistake Lining Up

Book:The Fuller Memorandum

Source: The Fuller Memorandum

“At either end of any food chain you find a biological system-a patch of soil, a human body-and the health of one is connected-literally-to the health of the other.”

Humans Ends Body Land Connected Chains Soil Human Body Patches Food Chain

Book:The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World

“A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.”

Men Ends Hands Fall Left Lines Millions Graves Chains Reform Remove Links Ancestor Apes Suspended

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as no human providence is high enough to give a man a prospect in the end. And in this chain, there are linked together both pleasing and unpleasing events in such manner as he that will do anything for his pleasure must engage himself to suffer all the pains annexed to it.”

Men Giving Humans Long Ends Enough Action Pain Together Suffering Pleasure Events Consequence Chains This Life Providence Linked

Book:The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition

Source: The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition

“When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck.”

Men Humans Ends Justice Feet Eternal Slave Chains Necks Contempt Tyrants Citizenship Free Man

Author:Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

“Our ingenuity in feeding ourselves is prodigious, but at various points our technologies come into conflict with nature's ways of doing things, as when we seek to maximize efficiency by planting crops or raising animals in vast mono-cultures. This is something nature never does, always and for good reasons practicing diversity instead. A great many of the health and environmental problems created by our food system owe to our attempts to oversimplify nature's complexities, at both the growing and the eating ends of our food chain.”

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World