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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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The ability to stand by one's principles, to live with integrity and faith according to one's belief-that is what matters, that is…
— Howard W. Hunter
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Undeniably, character does count for our citizens, out communities, and our Nation, and this week we celebrate the importance of character in…
— William J. Clinton
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The Passion of Christ was an experience which included in itself every experience except sin, of every member of the human race.…
— Caryll Houselander
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See, see Who God is, see the glory of God, going up to Him out of this incomprehensible and infinite Sacrifice in…
— Thomas Merton
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The majority of people are not awake; it is only here and there that we find one even partially awake. Practically all…
— Ralph Waldo Trine
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The irony of conversing with a stranger is that your individual lives always look very different and personal, but then you strip…
— Charlie Peacock
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Wherever the Bible has been consistently applied, it has dramatically changed the civilization and culture of those who have accepted its teaching.…
— John F Walvoord
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Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary…
— Elizabeth Kostova
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With only one life to live we can't afford to live it only for itself. Somehow we must each for himself, find…
— Hortense Odlum
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The objective of two lovers is almost always the same; to find meaning in their individual lives and in their life together.
— Paul Pearsall
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Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war. It’s a commitment to living with a certain kind of vulnerability…
— Judith Butler
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When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all…
— Richard Meier
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