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Were uncomfortable about considering history as a science. Its cla

Were uncomfortable about considering history as a science. Its classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific. – Jared Diamond

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I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book… and I began putting more work into environmental history. – Jared Diamond

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environmental
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Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isnt long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws weve got in this country. – Jared Diamond

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environmental
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Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology wont create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today. – Jared Diamond

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Technology
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Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us. – Huston Smith

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Science

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths. – Michael Shermer

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Science

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing. – Thomas Huxley

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Science

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity. – Margaret J. Wheatley

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Science

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Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and Ive done that since the beginning. So thats not new but the forms of it are different such as with the internet. – David Cronenberg

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movies

Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return. – Samuel Johnson

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Vacations

I wont go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love it. – Blair Underwood

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cool

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. – Voltaire

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Censorship