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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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The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices,…
— Lewis Mumford
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The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of…
— Marshall McLuhan
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Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild,…
— Paul Hawken
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Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to…
— Kevin Martin
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When you come close to selling out, reconsider.
— Lee Ann Womack
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Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost…
— Barbara Holland
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Loss provides an opportunity to take inventory of our lives, to reconsider priorities, and to determine new directions.
— Gerald Lawson Sittser
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We as educators need to reconsider our roles in students' lives, to think of ourselves as connectors first and content experts second.
— Will Richardson
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Pubic hair is proof of sexual maturity and if your partner finds that a turn-off, you should probably reconsider that partner.
— Hadley Freeman
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Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the…
— Charles Lyell
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I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell,
— Michael Polanyi
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We are so obsessed with the Net and technology that we forget the message... We imagine to be able to do anything,…
— Neville Brody
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