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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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Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed…
— David R. Brower
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It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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In 1939 Winston Churchill, describing the 5000-mile peaceful border dividing Canada and the United States, said, 'That long frontier from the Atlantic…
— Ronald Reagan
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It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has…
— Jenny Shipley
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than…
— Alan Kay
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The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy…
— Joe Queenan
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Mickey is a secret journal chained closed with a padlock, slammed inside a vault and dropped into the middle of the Pacific…
— Noel Fisher
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It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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From the city of angels off the Pacific Ocean. Good morning, good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation, around the…
— George Noory
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Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and…
— William H. Seward
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Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the…
— William Least Heat-Moon
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Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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