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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 INS, by their actions, is telling would-be illegal aliens that if you don't get caught entering the U.S., we'll look the…
— Lamar S. Smith
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Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department as a result of ongoing investigations into…
— Jo Bonner
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Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don't have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
— Bill Joy
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No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their…
— John C. Maxwell
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Perhaps Vanderbilt's most important role in the interest of our free society is to give the world educated men and women of…
— Unknown Author
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Zionism is only around 100 years old. It is the transformation from religion to nationalism, to materialism created by non-religious Jews who…
— Unknown Author
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We should think of those who were famous for their good deeds or their bad deeds; did their fame raise them one…
— Ibn Hazm
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What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists-whatever else they might be-might also be rational human beings ;…
— William Blum
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... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one…
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We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of…
— Warren G. Bennis
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