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There are winners and losers – and human will created the world we live in.
Richard Miles (historian)
Civilisation as a term suggests human agency. [...] It is the way in which people have articulated how and why they wanted to live in communities. It's about how we imagine the perfect community. [...] I think the most ambitious thing humans have ever done is deciding to live together with people whom they didn't know in cities. It's really difficult to build a community, to learn to celebrate difference and to live harmoniously together, and we fail all the time.
Richard Miles (historian)