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Gwynne Dyer has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at…
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As the most religious country of the 18 surveyed, the U.S. also comes in with the highest rates for teen pregnancy and…
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The scientists are really scared. Their [global warming] observations over the past two or three years suggest that everything is happening a…
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The military profession, especially is the long-established great powers, is deeply pessimistic about the likelihood that people and countries will behave well…
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But we are almost certainly going to miss our [global warming] deadline. We cannot get the 10 lost years back, and by…
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The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of…
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While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an undercurrent of…
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There is a point of no return after which warming becomes unstoppable - and we are probably going to sail right through…
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The first and most important impact of climate change on human civilisation will be an acute and permanent crisis of food supply.…
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Never did anyone ever stay longer than ten years because the resistance grows fiercer as your presence grows longer [in Afghanistan]. I…
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Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in…
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It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders.
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From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic…
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The American Dream that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been…
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For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at…
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The 'corporatization of America' during the past century [has been] an attack on democracy.
— Noam Chomsky
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American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.
— Diane Ravitch
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But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other…
— Thomas Keneally
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One of the most intuitive nature writers of our recently past century, Peter Matthiessen, lends a poets voice to the desperate effort…
— Ron Franscell
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In just the past century we have almost doubled the percentage of fat in our diets--from 20% in 1910 to about 35%…
— Paul Zane Pilzer
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An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way…
— Edith Hall
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To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands…
— Robert Higgs
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One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?
— Leon Kass
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It was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or…
— John Grant
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