Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?
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The sky is a girl who speaks in thunder, moves in lightning, hides her sorrow with clouds, cries in raindrops,and apologises with rainbows.
You have to make one thing a priority and achieve balance that way, rather than trying to do everything all at once.
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I always ask why and try to rectify myself.
I was lucky, and once I moved to L.A., I didn't have to get another job besides acting. But I wouldn't trade my previous jobs for anything.
In every jurisdictional area that I can get my fingers on, I want to move us away from the Washington insider economy.
I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.
The goal of Australian foreign policy should be to promote the maximum harmony between the U.S. and China.
When we move in a direction that touches our heart, we add to the momentum of deeper purpose that makes us feel more alive.
Yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits.
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.
Our Founding Fathers would be proud of all that America has achieved, and will continue to achieve, in the coming years.
Max Cherry: I'd say you're in the drug business, except the money's moving in the wrong direction.
When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.
To get GoPro started, I moved back in with my parents and went to work seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I wrote off my personal life to make headway on it.
Beetlejuice: [finds a brothel in the model] Hey, Adam, nice move! Barbara: Adam, why did you build that? Adam: I didn't.
The film camera's ability to physically move through space, not zoom through space - every time we have a video camera the movement is through zoom; every time we have a film camera it is a physical movement.