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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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It was, just as Kinski had predicted, suicide. He should never have done it. It is widely held by those who knew…
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I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to…
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The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of…
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The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we…
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The magnificent thing about her [Amelia Earhart] is, in the eyes of the world, she simply never died. Her fear never witnessed,…
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I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have…
— Max Brooks
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Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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More people deserted our party and we have never recovered.
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Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and…
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