Jared Diamond 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. – Jared Diamond Advance Quotes Diseases Quotes Estimated Quotes Europeans Quotes Indian Quotes Infectious Quotes Introduced Quotes Killed Quotes Measles Quotes Population Quotes Smallpox Quotes Spread Quotes Tribe Quotes Worlds Quotes 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. The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we’re coming to the end of world resources.
Rubi Rose My freshman year of high school, I was an excellent student, first and foremost. – Rubi Rose
David GrinspoonIntelligence Among the radio astronomers of SETI – the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence – it’s only sort-of a joke that the true hallmark of intelligent life is the creation of radio astronomy. – David Grinspoon
June Brown When I was 17-and-a-half I volunteered for the Wrens. I auditioned for a play and we took it round the Southern Command area and I really enjoyed it. I got laughs and that was when the bug got me. – June Brown
Asghar Farhadi I think it’s insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence. – Asghar Farhadi
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