Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?


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DELANEY DIAMOND
When I need my wife or when I need companionship or someone to talk to, I need it, like, now. So my ...
NEIL DIAMOND
Some days are diamonds Some days are stones Sometimes the hard times won't leave me alone Sometimes ...
NEIL DIAMOND
They didn't actually think it was going to be achievable, because they were so frightened by the vas...
WILLIAM DIAMOND
All the sparkly shirts and the stage trappings - that's just the performer, the public me, ... Songw...
NEIL DIAMOND
In our equities business, 49 of the 50 most important Lehman clients are back doing business with us...
BOB DIAMOND
They never made them to this scale. We made them much higher, much wider, so that the client and the...
WILLIAM DIAMOND
I've done a lot of Internet research and read a lot of books about oils. It's my personal thing,
HARVEY DIAMOND
This is a great way to celebrate the 25th Anniversary and re-live the magic of THE BLUES BROTHERS on...
DAN DIAMOND
I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting ...
NEIL DIAMOND
He's really likable and sincere, and he's very easy to be with. He certainly wasn't easygoing in the...
NEIL DIAMOND
Everywhere around the world They're coming to America Everytime that flags unfurled They're coming t...
NEIL DIAMOND
You are the sun, ... I am the moon.
NEIL DIAMOND
All of which I agreed to, with the exception of playing on the songs while singing, ... We butted he...
NEIL DIAMOND
We're happy that you're here and that you remember us, ... Remember Me.
NEIL DIAMOND
I made a U-turn and went back 40 years to try to recapture those feelings, ... The major difference ...
NEIL DIAMOND
the hardest part of this whole project. Each song has its own story, its own emotional content, its ...
NEIL DIAMOND
I was doing what I wanted to do, ... I was making the records I wanted to make where and when I want...
NEIL DIAMOND
the recordings became bigger than the songs, which I came to understand is a backwards way of doing ...
NEIL DIAMOND
It's very difficult for me to say 'I love you' but to sing 'I love you' for me is easier.
NEIL DIAMOND
As he said to all the rich, middle-aged white people, 'We are all God's children.'
NEIL DIAMOND
Of course I liked what Johnny did with 'Solitary Man,'
NEIL DIAMOND
That's show business,
NEIL DIAMOND
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
Kind of unspoken, we both agreed to continue working and to get to the next stage, ... which was to ...
NEIL DIAMOND
You have to go out there and give a piece of yourself -- your life, your soul. And you better give t...
NEIL DIAMOND
I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.
NEIL DIAMOND
Be as a page that aches for a word/ Which speaks on a theme that is timeless.
NEIL DIAMOND
They repealed the pay raise but they didn't repeal the indelible mark it left on the taxpayers from ...
RUSS DIAMOND
Instead of just giving us a tax break and putting the money back into the General Fund, we've got to...
RUSS DIAMOND
The legislators are confused and scared right now. But that doesn't change a thing for us.
RUSS DIAMOND
I think that the voters fully understand what's going on here.
RUSS DIAMOND
They can do it again. It?s time to take back our government.
RUSS DIAMOND
"I am," I said To no one there And no one heard at all Not even the chair "I am," I cried "I am," sa...
NEIL DIAMOND
This is a great way to celebrate the 25th Anniversary and re-live the magic of THE BLUES BROTHERS on...
DAN DIAMOND