"Some people have much more pull than other……" — Jared Diamond
"Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying it in a moral sense. I'm just saying it in the sense of what is it that's really going to bring change."
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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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More Bring Quotes
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
— Aristophanes
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
— Aristotle
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To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.
— Richard Bach
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
— Saint Augustine
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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
— Jane Austen
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Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where…
— Bill Ayers
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Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn…
— Richard Bach
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One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access…
— Michelle Bachelet
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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
— Francis Bacon
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There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity. You've got to bring those three things to a leading man's…
— Alec Baldwin
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People want change. How is Barack going to do it? I think McCain can bring change.
— Stephen Baldwin
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