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Civilizational bottleneck (twitter.com)
posted 6 days ago by Knight_Of_Saint_John on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +35Score on mirror )
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PSX_X on scored.co
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> # "In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgia's, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed; but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock".
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> ~ Harry Lime, *The Third Man*
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BeefyBelisarius on scored.co
6 days ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
The Swiss also produced some of the best mercenaries on the continent, wouldn't exactly call them peaceful.
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Knight_Of_Saint_John on scored.co
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Real shit.

Strife and suffering brings out the best in us

Like steelcraft, the more you hit the blade the more refined it becomes
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