It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed.


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Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of ...
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If you gave me 10 million dollars, I wouldn't live any differently. Although nowadays I guess you'd ...
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The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did...
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Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's ea...
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Tasmania lies 130 miles southeast of Australia. When it was first visited by Europeans in 1642, Tasm...
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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.
RUSS DIAMOND
Many cases are won or lost during the jury selection phase of the case.
JAMES DIAMOND
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...
DAN DIAMOND
I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.
DUSTIN DIAMOND
Life is a series of lessons in which there is never enough learned.
DIAMOND RYAN