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Continents Quotes by Jared Diamond
- Australia is the most isolated continent.
- Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?
- In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it was…
- The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among…
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- Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there… — Annie Besant
- All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries… — Elizabeth Bishop
- Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a… — H. P. Blavatsky
- This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky. — James Agee
- Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all… — Unknown Author
- The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the… — Unknown Author
- Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless… — Italo Calvino
- People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity… — David Cameron