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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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"You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that."
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"Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face."
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"Those who build beneath the stars build too low."
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"The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter."
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"We had to leave Australia to become international stars."
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"The real big stars only keep this up for about seven years."
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"What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?"
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"You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is."
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"Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone."
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"Movie stars are supposed to be healthy. They're kept happy and nutritionally together."
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"We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific."
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"Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that."
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"The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan."
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"Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases."
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"Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history."
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"Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique."
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"Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?"
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"The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa."
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"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."
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"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."
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