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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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This is not class warfare, this is generational warfare. This administration and old wealthy people have declared war on young people. That…
— James Carville
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Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people…
— Jimmy Carter
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Liberals believe that crime is inextricably linked with poverty. In reality, most poor people never resort to crime, and some wealthy people…
— Rush Limbaugh
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An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.
— Denis Healey
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Wealthy people always know the exact value of their time.
— Marshall Sylver
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I came here with nothing, with maybe a hundred bucks in my pocket and had to get a job. And these wealthy…
— Mark Burnett
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We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.
— Jim Talent
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You can't be evangelical and associate yourself with Jesus and what he says about the poor and just have no other domestic…
— Jim Wallis
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I know a lot of wealthy people in West Los Angeles. Money doesn't necessarily make you happy.
— Frederick Lenz
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You definitely meet a lot of extremely powerful, successful, wealthy people in Hollywood who are extremely miserable.
— Diablo Cody
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You don't have to be the smartest person to become successful and wealthy. Many of the most successful and wealthy people in…
— Jon Jones
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Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were…
— Gail Collins
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