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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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To me, I think people who don't think it's a big deal to toss a plastic bottle in the garbage are not…
— Sophia Bush
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We become truly personal by loving God and by loving other humans... In its deepest sense, love is the life, the energy,…
— Kallistos Ware
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There's no grand excellence to it. In my experience it was just almost the gulaggy boringness of it that'll kill you. You're…
— Neko Case
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I saw my role as prime minister's wife as being human towards other humans and not treating them badly.
— Margaret Whitlam
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Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam's fellowship with God was perfect,…
— John Ortberg
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Those who consume animals not only harm those animals and endanger themselves, but they also threaten the well-being of other humans who…
— Michael Greger
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Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear…
— Gary Steiner
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In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them?…
— Jane Goodall
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I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E.…
— James Lovelock
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It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Money is a symbol of that life force, of its appreciation. Money can be a solidified form of love. Through the transfer…
— Stuart Wilde
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You do not have to marry in order not to be alone- all you need not to be alone is to have…
— Myles Munroe
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