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Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that…

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People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can…
It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what…
It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a…
In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able…
Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the…
Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear…
What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do…
In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.
Letting things slide is always the easiest thing to do, in parenting no less than in banking, public education, and environmental protection.…
Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval.
It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. — Truman Capote
I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of… — John le Carre
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise. — Miguel de Cervantes
Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the… — William Lloyd Garrison
Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the longer they… — Joseph Hall
Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the… — Unknown Author
Wine ...moderately drunken it doth quicken a man's wits, It doth comfort the heart. — Unknown Author
The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world's… — Arthur Lynch
So long as the Constitution is not amended beyond recognition, so long as elections are held regularly and fairly and the ethos… — Ramachandra Guha
For a seriously autistic kid, the best prognosis might be getting into a mainstream school without being too much of a shadow.… — Jenny McCarthy
I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional — Matthew Gray Gubler
Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not… — Thomas Paine

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