"Why is it that you white people developed……" — Jared Diamond
"Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?"
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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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My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing…
— Teresa of Avila
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the…
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It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this…
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
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The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power…
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They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were…
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