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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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I think probably the scaredest I've ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode that became known as 'Black…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here.
— Mary McGrory
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This counter-terrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out Isil wherever they exist, using our air power…
— Barack Obama
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I could have sworn that they were originally Americans who maybe fled. Maybe they were illegal immigrants or something who got here,…
— Rush Limbaugh
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We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing…
— Wesley Clark
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While other faiths are also often oppressive, sharia law is especially oppressive. Its interpretations stipulate the execution of Muslims who commit adultery,…
— Peter Tatchell
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The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On…
— Michel Chossudovsky
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Imagine a weight-loss program at the end of which, instead of better health, good looks, and hot romantic prospects, you die. Somalia…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.
— K'naan
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