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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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Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand…
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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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There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
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I beg of you, you who could and should be bearing and rearing a family: Wives, come home from the typewriter, the…
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We are near 2010….2010!! Yet race, sex and religion still play a major role in a hate driven society. For the love…
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This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a…
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I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.
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Those individuals who give moral considerations a much greater weight than considerations of expediency represent a comparatively small minority, five percent of…
— Leo Szilard
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Cable is not a robot. The metal in his body is actually organic tissue. Ed and I have talked about this a…
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Canada is preparing to play a major role in the continued stability and security of Afghanistan through ISAF.
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