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“With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them.”

People Years Firsts First Time Years Ago Stranger Encounters Attempting

Book:Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Source: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

“I should have thought of this years ago. But that was the problem with being sane. Sane people played by the rules. They looked for rational explanations and solutions in an insane universe.”

People Should Years Problem Universe Solutions Years Ago Should Have Rational Insane Explanation Sane

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“It's interesting to see that people had so much clutter even thousands of years ago. The only way to get rid of it all was to bury it, and then some archaeologist went and dug it all up.”

People Way Years Interesting Years Ago Clutter Archaeology Archaeologists

Book:An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

Source: An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

“I did some research on this a couple years ago," Augustus continued. "I was wondering if everybody could be remembered. Like, if we got organized, and assigned a certain number of corpses to each living person, would there be enough living people to remember all the dead people?" "And are there?" "Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about”

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians.”

People Years America Cities Four Thousand Years Ago Rivers Ancestor Thousand Years Barbarians Illiterate Grids Sewers

Book:The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people.”

“People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.”

People Giving Years Two Different Reality Three Events Taught Hundred Years Ago Witness Accounting Praxis

Book:Styxx

Source: Styxx

“As Jeremy Bentham had asked about animals well over two hundred years ago, the question was not whether they could reason or talk, but could they suffer? And yet, somehow, it seemed to take more imagination for humans to identify with animal suffering than it did to conceive of space flight or cloning or nuclear fusion. Yes, she was a fanatic in the eyes of most of the country. . .Mostly, however, she just lacked patience for people who wouldn't accept her belief that humans inflicted needless agony on the animals around them, and they did so in numbers that were absolutely staggering.”

“People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America is 8 yards. That is the scale of the error.”

People Should Years Believe Earth America Science Years Ago Errors Billions Scales Yards North America Width

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.”

Source: Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

“I really want people to know that I've worked hard, very hard, to get to where I am today.. this didn't just happen overnight. I started in business over 25 years ago and have found a way to build on what I've learned through every partnership and opportunity.”

People Knows Way Want Years Hard Happens Today Found Opportunity Business Hard Work Years Ago Encouragement I've Learned Partnership

Author:Magic Johnson

“I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save and invest and expand their businesses and to create more jobs. The kind of thing we did in the early Reagan years, 30 years ago. I think that's essential.”

People Thinking Needs Years Kind Jobs Effort Policy Serious Taxes Essentials Years Ago Encouragement Incentives

Author:Dick Cheney

“I do not believe that the people of the United States are going to take people who have been here a quarter century, who have children and grandchildren, who are members of the community, who may have done something 25 years ago, separate them from their families, and expel them.”

People Years Believe May Children Has Beens States Done Community United United States Century Members Years Ago Immigration Quarters Grandchildren Children And Grandchildren

Author:Newt Gingrich

“I say that they can be solved; there is no problem that cannot be, but faith is necessary. Think of the faith I had to have eighteen years ago, a single man on a lonely path. Yet I have come to leadership of the German people... Life is hard for many, but it is hardest if you are unhappy and have no faith. Have faith. Nothing can make me change my own belief.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Years Hard Problem Life Is Belief Nations My Own Path Years Ago Lonely Unhappy Hardest Have Faith No Problem Eighteen Life Is Hard Single Man Lonely Path

Author:Adolf Hitler

“I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.”

People Knows Way Years Two Country Travel Years Ago Soldier Two Years Funny Travel Lebanon Two Years Ago

Author:June Jordan

“America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path - the path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago ... How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom - the clothing of the grave - that some people believe she is already fitted for.”

People Years Believe Light America Young Forget Path Century Hundred Years Ago Forgotten Graves Maturity Fifty Customs Never Forget Clothings

Author:Bernard Baruch

“I saw something in a program on something in Miami, and they were saying, "We've redecorated this building to how it looked over 50 years ago!" And people were going, "No, surely not, no. No one was alive then."”

People Years Saws Alive Building Years Ago Program Fake Fake People Miami Over 50

Author:Eddie Izzard

“I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the Acts of Congress.' If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it.”

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

“The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans - but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago.”

People Years Sea Ocean Years Ago Tradition Roots Eras Hindsight Ocean Sea Oceans And Seas High Seas

Author:James Carlton

“People shop and learn in a whole new way compared to just a few years ago, so marketers need to adapt or risk extinction.”

People Way Needs Years Whole Risk Years Ago Marketing Shops New Ways Extinction Digital Marketing Marketers

Book:Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs

Source: Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs

“I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.”

People Men Want Years Mean Different Country Clear Violence Conflict Hundred Men And Women Years Ago Honestly Afghan

Author:Hillary Clinton

“One hundred years ago, if someone said, 'damn,' people would take notice. Now, you can say almost anything. Secrets are the same way. Once upon a time when a secret was revealed, people paid an enormous amount of attention to it.”

People Ifs Way Years Said Secret Attention Amount Hundred Years Ago Paid Enormous Damn Once Upon A Time

Author:Paul Levinson

“Small people delight in what they call consistency-that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as they did ten years ago. This simply amounts to a certificate that they have not grown-that they have not developed-and that they know just as little now as they ever did. The highest possible conception of consistency is to be true to the knowledge of today, without the slightest reference to what your opinion was years ago.”

People Knows Giving Years Believe Littles Today Growth Pleasure Opinion Amount Integrity Ten Highest Years Ago Delight Being True Conception Immense Consistency Certificates

Book:Tributes and miscellany

Source: Tributes and miscellany

“It's a sleepy, wonderful, idyllic town but there's a curse on it from 100 years ago, ... The people who died in this kind of boating accident have come back to take their revenge.”

People Years Kind Wonderful Years Ago Died Towns Revenge Accidents Boat Curse Sleepy Idyllic

Author:Selma Blair

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