The older I get, the more I think that the main driving force in human
affairs is not greed or lust, still less anything positive like charity or
piety: It is wishful thinking. ... A survey of history suggests that all
great civilizations were strongly averse to some aspect of reality; and
that the aversion was, in each case, a contributing factor in
civilizational downfall. -- John Derbyshire
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