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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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To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.
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I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more…
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The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.
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Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
— William Taylor
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According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430…
— Jacques Ellul
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I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess…
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If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself…
— Karl Marx
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There is no one who has no leisure time at all. The office is not a permanent sanctuary, and Sundays are an…
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Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons,…
— Charles Heiser
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Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined…
— Stephen Covey
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Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.
— Guy Debord
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