"The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive……" — Jared Diamond
"The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered."
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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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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 Adoption Quotes
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one of 220 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
— Isaac Asimov
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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Nothing is impossible,' said one of the seven sages of Greece, 'to industry.' Let us change the word, 'industry,' to…
— Adoniram Judson
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State Farm is pleased to support the Common Core State Standards Initiative. State by State adoption of these standards is…
— Edward B. Rust, Jr.
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Abortion is an act of desperation. It's an awful solution to a situation that God can work out for good…
— Bob Carlisle
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I think it is a worthy goal in America to have every child protected by law and welcomed in life.…
— George W. Bush
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Gay adoption is discrimination against children
— Pope Francis
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There are people who've said that I'm being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption... With all…
— Anne Hathaway
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Next came the patent laws. These began in England in 1624, and in this country with the adoption of our…
— Abraham Lincoln
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You see how many are the benefits of baptism, and some think its heavenly grace consists only in the remission…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond…
— John Calvin
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I definitely thought about it long and hard, about if I wanted to keep the baby or not, and I…
— Kourtney Kardashian
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