"History as well as life itself is complicated……" — Jared Diamond
"History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."
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Jared Diamond
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88 Quotes by Jared Diamond
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Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural…
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Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being…
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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…
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The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago…
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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…
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The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions…
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One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long…
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When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you…
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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…
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Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared…
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The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when…
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I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
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The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships,…
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The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going…
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There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are…
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It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they…
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of…
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I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.
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I believe that if your brain has to get to grips with complicated words, then you won't get Alzheimer's. I'm…
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Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.
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