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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 look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting…
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China is starting an English-speaking television network around the world, Russia is, Al Jazeera. And the BBC is cutting back on its…
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Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people,…
— Winston Churchill
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Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world. Canada, with those relations of friendly, affectionate intimacy with the United States on the…
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It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.
— Winston Churchill
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These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up…
— Winston Churchill
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Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.
— Padgett Powell
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I don't want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking…
— Gavin McInnes
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Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and its spelling). More…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.
— George Orwell
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An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave.…
— Daniel Yergin
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French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels.…
— Alma Gluck
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