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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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Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.
— Bill Ayers
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The burden of proof is now on the Palestinians... They must fight terrorism and dismantle its infrastructures in order to make possible…
— Kjell Magne Bondevik
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For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be…
— Audre Lorde
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I would be saying to the Iranians, you either open those facilities, begin to dismantle them and make them available to inspectors…
— Rick Santorum
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Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity…
— Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to…
— Joseph Beuys
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There's no better way to dismantle a personality than to isolate it.
— Princess Diana
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The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not…
— Michael Mullen
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Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle…
— Lierre Keith
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When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you…
— Andrew Solomon
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I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the…
— Pope Pius XII
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Do not dismantle the house, but look at each brick, and replace those which appear to be broken, which no longer support…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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