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Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in…
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Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as…
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In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
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In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce…
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The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder…
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Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants…
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The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations…
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One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of…
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When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming…
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The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
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It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with…
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Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or…
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It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the…
— James Madison
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This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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Life is a series of collisions with the future.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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At the very time that Congress is considering a Bush administration request to equip our troops in Iraq with vehicles that are…
— Deneen Borelli
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They're hitting harder now more than ever. The only person who would argue that is someone who has never had a physics…
— Randy Cross
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There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not…
— Joseph Campbell
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The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations…
— Jared Diamond
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I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground…
— Alfred Kastler
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New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life.
— Hope Edelman
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I’ve always liked edges, places where one thing becomes another…… transition zones, boundaries and borderlands. I like the mixing that happens, the…
— Philip Connors
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Life is a series of random collisions.
— Jessica Zafra
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Danish studies of 10,000 birds killed revealed that almost all died in collisions with buildings, cars and wires; only 10 were killed…
— David Suzuki
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