"The results of civilization were surprising: our lives became more secure but less free, and we worked a lot harder.”."
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As quoted in Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (2009), p. 17
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Eduardo Galeano
1940 – 2015
uruguayischer Journalist, Essayist und Schriftsteller
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