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- I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10…
- Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native wild mammal species,…
- Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying it in a…
- Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there are now more…
- Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For…
- Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by farmers. The spread…
- Decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle