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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 guns, the nastiest…

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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…
Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as…
In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce…
The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder…
Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants…
The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations…
One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of…
When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming…
The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with…
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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I would be a liar if I said I don't care [about my appearance]; yes, I care. I found it very difficult,… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
You can say the nastiest things about yourself without offending anyone. — Phyllis Diller
What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition. — Christopher Hitchens
It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with… — Jared Diamond
John Wayne was the meanest, nastiest man with the worst attitude that I ever worked with. — Unknown Author
Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way. — Isaac Goldberg
I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory.… — Wesley Clark
'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters. — Jay McInerney
A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with. — Banksy
I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all. — Donna Tartt
They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the… — Terry Pratchett
among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all — Tracy Kidder

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