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Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about. Instead, all the major threats facing us…

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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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We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making. — Joseph Chilton Pearce
We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making. — Terry Brooks
Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures… — Max Horkheimer
Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years… — Al Gore
Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and… — Marshall McLuhan
Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about. Instead, all the major… — Jared Diamond
People tend to consider beig vulnerable a bad thing. It's not. Vulnerability reminds us that we're human. It keeps us open to… — Jodee Blanco
Through fear of knowing who we really are we sidestep our own destiny, which leaves us hungry in a famine of our… — Dawna Markova
We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles...bot h of our own making and imposed by the natural world.… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too. — Robin Hobb
The bars on our cage are of our own making. — Jessie Burton
The evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and… — Thomas Merton

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