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In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation…

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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They…
From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a…
To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare…
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of…
If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great…
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of…
Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey…
The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality,…
A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically,…
So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us…
If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering…

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These are the experiences I wish to record in this book, which should really be called The Diary of a Palaeontologist. But… — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
Perhaps we become aware of our existence only when we feel on our skin the touch of a place that has no… — Andrzej Stasiuk
We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a… — Unknown Author
South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century. — Louis Leakey
The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age… — Louis Leakey
The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to… — Weston La Barre
The earliest religious texts in the West ascribe to humankind both a prehistory and a destiny among the gods. M. David Litwa… — Terryl L. Givens
Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and… — Jean M. Auel
Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and… — Alice Miller
In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves. — H.G. Wells
The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of… — Andrew Marr
In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something… — Barbara Ehrenreich

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