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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Across Belief Change Come Demonstrate Even Fall Generation Hard Slowly
Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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Around Depend Energy Fungal Major Material Olayerm Cycle World
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Burn Cook Destroy Economic Gain Meal Paint Rainforest Renaissance
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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Cail Cease Come Environment Perhaps Time View
In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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Ant Away Collapse Ecosystem Environment Land Many Partial
Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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Altruist Always Among Beat Compete Contest Group Human Individual Intense Selfish Win
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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Fierce Have Mist Odd Powerful Productive Religion Science Two World
People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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Nonfiction Novel People Red Respect
There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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Any Create Green Next Other Revolution Seem Way
We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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Decide Decommissioned Deep Look Must Natural Ourselves Selection Wish
The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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Combine Exceed Genre Likely Planet Variety Virus
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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Another Committed Fail Find Forgive Guy Lost Quest Those
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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Adaption Belief Evolved Hard Itself Religion Tribalistic Wired
People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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Alive Ancestor Another Essential Humanity Intellectual Keep Large Purpose Sacred Sense

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