"The United States has long thought of itself……" — Jared Diamond
"The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources."
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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 Abundant Quotes
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The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will…
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.
— William Arthur Ward
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The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training…
— William James
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One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant.
— Sun Tzu
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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.
— Randy Alcorn
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The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.
— Martin Seligman
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In the past our glorious visions of the future - heaven, paradise, nirvana - were thought to happen after death.…
— Barbara Marx Hubbard
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That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the…
— Thomas Aquinas
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It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the…
— Joseph Story
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We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the…
— George Washington
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