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"Change is caused by lazy, greedy, frightened people looking for easier, more profitable, and safer ways to do things."

This is from an article in the Chronicle about historian Ian Morris.
http://chronicle.com/article/In-Ian-Morriss-Big-History/137415/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en

Like Hobbes's "nasty, brutish, and short," those Limeys sure have a way with words.
Tim

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