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Jared Diamond

"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 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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Donna Grant

"It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions."

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Donna Grant

"Sometimes while gazing at the night's sky, I imagine stars looking down making wishes on the brightest of us."

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Donna Grant

"Kill Rock Stars allowed me to put out a real genuine rock 'n' roll record."

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Donna Grant

"The real big stars only keep this up for about seven years."

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Donna Grant

"An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down."

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Donna Grant

"Pop stars should not eat."

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Donna Grant

"We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them."

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Donna Grant

"Reach for the stars."

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Donna Grant

"Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe."

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Donna Grant

"His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations."

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Jared Diamond
"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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Jared Diamond
"Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science."

Science

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Jared Diamond
"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

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Jared Diamond
"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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Jared Diamond
"Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation."

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Jared Diamond
"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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Jared Diamond
"Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying it in a moral sense. I'm just saying it in the sense of what is it that's really going to bring change."

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Jared Diamond
"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."

History

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Jared Diamond
"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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Jared Diamond
"Technology has to be invented or adopted."

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