"In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals,……" — Jared Diamond
"In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce baby oil droplets or coal nuggets."
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88 Quotes by Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond has 88 quotes on this site.
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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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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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A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.
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Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like…
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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her…
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I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became 'hip.'
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It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a…
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It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why…
— Dave Barry
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If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you…
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I feel like some of my baby fat is going away, and that's not just physically, it's psychologically. I think…
— Drew Barrymore
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There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy…
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I have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I…
— Emmanuelle Beart
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If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
— Milton Berle
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Having a baby takes so much from you. It's the most glorious thing you'll ever do, but the aftermath is…
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