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"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."
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"We had to leave Australia to become international stars."
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"When it gets dark enough you can see the stars."
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"His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations."
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"The real big stars only keep this up for about seven years."
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"I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone."
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"I feel there is a curse on rock stars."
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"Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars."
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"Pop stars should not eat."
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
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"Those who build beneath the stars build too low."
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"Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands."
Society
"Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation."
Innovation
"It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World."
Society
"Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today."
Technology
"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."
Communication
"The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves."
History
"I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions."
Time
"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."
Animals
"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."
Environment
"We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about."
History
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