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> [“Americans had become lazy and irresponsible, focused on the pursuit of sex, money, and pleasures, unwilling to sacrifice and prepare for the obvious threats all around them. What fools to think "Guns, Germs and Steel" would no longer shape human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/drew-miller/americans-had-become-lazy-and-irresponsible-focused-on-the-pursuit-of/)

[Drew Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/drew-miller/)

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> [“In his groundbreaking book Guns, Germs, and Steel, biologist Jared Diamond poses the question: Why did Old World diseases devastate the New World and not the other way around? Why did disease move in only one direction?\* The answer lies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-preston/in-his-groundbreaking-book-guns-germs-and-steel-biologist-jared/)

[Douglas Preston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-preston/)

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