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Elizabeth Kolbert has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can…
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It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what…
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It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a…
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In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
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Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able…
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Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the…
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Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear…
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What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do…
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In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.
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Letting things slide is always the easiest thing to do, in parenting no less than in banking, public education, and environmental protection.…
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Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval.
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It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.
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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
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It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.
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Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing…
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If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An…
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Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.
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In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind.…
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You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives!
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