"A world with a sudden limit on air……" — Charles C. Mann
"A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now."
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14 Quotes by Charles C. Mann
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In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s…
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The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign…
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Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of…
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Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.
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Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.
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The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.
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The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.
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A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and…
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Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in…
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Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such…
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Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of…
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The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they…
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More Air Quotes
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Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the…
— Alexis Arguello
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
— Matthew Arnold
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
— Diane Ackerman
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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then…
— Lester Bangs
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of…
— Stanley Baldwin
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
— Jack Adams
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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
— Drew Barrymore
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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into…
— Drew Barrymore
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
— Clive Bell
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
— Hilaire Belloc
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