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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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I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for…
— Smedley Butler
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The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what…
— Daddy Yankee
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The DOCF all started when I made a trip to a local hospital in the Dominican Republic. I was visiting children who…
— David Ortiz
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I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place…
— Smedley Butler
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I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my…
— Michelle Rodriguez
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I have never injected myself or had anyone inject me with anything. I have not broken the laws of the United States…
— Sammy Sosa
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The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've…
— Henry Louis Gates
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For my first three books the setting (or place if you will) has always been a given - N.J. and the Dominican…
— Junot Diaz
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I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both.…
— Junot Diaz
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Dominican Republic is, is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, etcetera.
— Pat Robertson
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It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of…
— Junot Diaz
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For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful…
— Jared Diamond
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