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Jared Diamond has 90 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain.
— Unknown Author
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There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to…
— Rumi
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In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
— Jared Diamond
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We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but thats no matter.…
— Tom Robbins
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Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater,…
— Simon Mawer
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In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved…
— Christopher Hitchens
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In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater
— Pablo Neruda
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Fish love the ocean. Snakes move like earth-fish inside a mountain,well away from seawater. Certain sunfish,though,turn snakes into ocean lovers.
— Rumi
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Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.
— Thomas Bernhard
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Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature,…
— Alan Lightman
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For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.
— Zadie Smith
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We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds.…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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