As he said to all the rich, middle-aged white people, 'We are all God's children.'


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With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placin...
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What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didn't ...
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Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. A...
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The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by...
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AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing ...
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If one of those friendly societies itself runs into environmental problems and collapses for environ...
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The problem is that only a tiny minority of wild plants and animals lend themselves to domestication...
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Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-h...
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The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have ...
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Technology has to be invented or adopted.
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Guns, Germs and Steel
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why, for instance, only 2 per cent of Europeans contract the disease as opposed to 13 per cent of Af...
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In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. Tha...
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Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
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To me, the conclusion that the public has the ultimate responsibility for the behavior of even the b...
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Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, l...
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The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island, isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got int...
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The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North Amer...
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Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter...
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This is a great way to celebrate the 25th Anniversary and re-live the magic of THE BLUES BROTHERS on...
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Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, ...
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It's a clear signal that Pennsylvanians have awoke from their long slumber.
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Many cases are won or lost during the jury selection phase of the case.
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Humans have been evolving for millions of years longer in Africa than in Europe, and even anatomical...
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It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, i...
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Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, ...
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We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reas...
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How is it that Pizarro and Cortes reached the New World at all, before Aztec and Inca conquistadors ...
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Australia is the most isolated continent.
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They repealed the pay raise but they didn't repeal the indelible mark it left on the taxpayers from ...
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Instead of just giving us a tax break and putting the money back into the General Fund, we've got to...
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The legislators are confused and scared right now. But that doesn't change a thing for us.
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I think that the voters fully understand what's going on here.
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They can do it again. It?s time to take back our government.
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Tasmanians actually abandoned some technologies that they brought with them from Australia and that ...
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This is a great way to celebrate the 25th Anniversary and re-live the magic of THE BLUES BROTHERS on...
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I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.
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Life is a series of lessons in which there is never enough learned.
DIAMOND RYAN