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Way Quotes by Jared Diamond
- One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of causation may separate…
- But this was the only way of life that humans knew for their first 6m years on the planet. In giving it up over the…
- The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.
- Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology…
- Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For…
- Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee…
- The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could…
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