You get up and, first thing in the morning, you do your 500 words. Do it every day and youโve got a book in eight or nine months.
Vaclav SmilEnergy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, plants to grow, and civilizations to evolve.
Vaclav SmilApple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroad - yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, thereโs nothing new in it. Just a golden color. What the hell, right? When people start playing with color, you know theyโre played out.
Vaclav SmilA useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern civilization is withdrawing accumulated solar capital at rates that will exhaust it in a tiny fraction of the time that was needed to create it.
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