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"Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation."
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"Thinking outside of the box keeps you from suffocating inside of one."
"The ordinary are here to fit into the world, the extraordinary are here to create their own worlds."
"Great minds birth great ideas. Extraordinary minds birth extraordinary ideas. Transcendent minds birth transcendent ideas."
"In a world full of game players, the only way to set yourself apart is to be a game changer."
"Great ideas doesn't need approvals, they need application."
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"The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet."
"Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had."
"Your ingenuity will remain dormant until it is provoked."
"Don't always complain the way isn't there. If you can't find the way, create it."
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"Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north."
"I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons."
"The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources."
"No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment."
"Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population."
"We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs."
"We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific."
"Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country."
"Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure."
"The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere."
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