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“A fully integrated culture would be like the dinosaurs, which had to perish because they were no longer able to adapt themselves to changes in the external environment.” quote by Carroll Quigley — Download Open image

“A fully integrated culture would be like the dinosaurs, which had to perish because they were no longer able to adapt themselves to changes in the external environment.”

Carroll Quigley

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Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect.

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