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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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An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the…
— Clara Barton
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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human…
— Harold Bloom
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We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance......
— John Calvin
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Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive…
— Richard Dawkins
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A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission…
— Elie Wiesel
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It cannot be emphasized too strongly that Christianity has a vested interest in human misery. Christianity, perhaps more than any religion before…
— George H. Smith
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