"In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil……" — Jared Diamond
"In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater."
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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 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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A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.
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More Concentration Quotes
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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality…
— Lord Acton
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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
— Max Beerbohm
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Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're…
— Lisa Bonet
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The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because…
— Jenson Button
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Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
— Andrew Carnegie
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It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest,…
— Jimmy Carter
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At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I…
— Nick Cave
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If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the…
— Sri Chinmoy
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Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an…
— Noam Chomsky
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The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of…
— Noam Chomsky
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Music for me, it demands full concentration.
— Paulo Coelho
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