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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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"It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions."
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"Sometimes while gazing at the night's sky, I imagine stars looking down making wishes on the brightest of us."
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"Kill Rock Stars allowed me to put out a real genuine rock 'n' roll record."
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"The real big stars only keep this up for about seven years."
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"An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down."
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"Pop stars should not eat."
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"We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them."
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"Reach for the stars."
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"Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe."
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"His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations."
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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."
Hope
"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
"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 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."
Stars
"Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation."
Innovation
"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."
History
"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."
Change
"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
"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."
Hope
"Technology has to be invented or adopted."
Technology
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