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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 to your land…

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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…
Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as…
In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce…
The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder…
Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants…
The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations…
One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of…
When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming…
The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with…
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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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that… — Frederick The Great
I have assured His Majesty that our war is against evil, not against Islam. There are thousands of Muslims who proudly call… — George W. Bush
The most universally awesome experience that mankind knows is to stand alone on a clear night and look at the stars. It… — J I Packer
His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish. — Charles XII of Sweden
His Majesty has always been a powerful man. Perhaps he has never had to distinguish between the two. — Alison Goodman
They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a… — Fitz-Greene Halleck
That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes… — Thomas Jefferson
As long as His Majesty is sick, I will move my bed to his chambers, the better to care for him. — Unknown Author
His Majesty [the Lord] . . . rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of… — Teresa of Avila
On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and… — Hideki Tojo
When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming… — Jared Diamond

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