I'm a big 'Star Wars' fan and grew up watching the movies. I read all the books and have read 'Star Wars' fiction that went between the newest trilogy and the original trilogy and it was part of my childhood.


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Most people are explicitly racists. In parts of the world - so called educated, so-called western so...
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.
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Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of ...
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If you gave me 10 million dollars, I wouldn't live any differently. Although nowadays I guess you'd ...
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The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did...
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Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's ea...
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Tasmania lies 130 miles southeast of Australia. When it was first visited by Europeans in 1642, Tasm...
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With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placin...
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What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didn't ...
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Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. A...
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The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by...
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AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing ...
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If one of those friendly societies itself runs into environmental problems and collapses for environ...
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The problem is that only a tiny minority of wild plants and animals lend themselves to domestication...
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Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-h...
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The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have ...
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Technology has to be invented or adopted.
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Guns, Germs and Steel
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why, for instance, only 2 per cent of Europeans contract the disease as opposed to 13 per cent of Af...
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In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. Tha...
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Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
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To me, the conclusion that the public has the ultimate responsibility for the behavior of even the b...
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I need to find a woman named Monday... Because Mondays always suck
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This report may give pause to some of the optimists looking for a stronger second half, ... We need ...
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Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, l...
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The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island, isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got int...
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The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North Amer...
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Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter...
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Try and fail, but never fail to try!
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Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, ...
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Humans have been evolving for millions of years longer in Africa than in Europe, and even anatomical...
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It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, i...
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Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, ...
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We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reas...
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How is it that Pizarro and Cortes reached the New World at all, before Aztec and Inca conquistadors ...
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Australia is the most isolated continent.
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Tasmanians actually abandoned some technologies that they brought with them from Australia and that ...
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The federal government has an exceptionally poor record of behaving responsibly with Americans' ...
JARED POLIS
While most of my public service work centers on improving our schools and fixing our broken immigrat...
JARED POLIS
Pure guts. That's Eli. I mean, he's a Manning. He's an incredible player. To be hurting the way he w...
JARED LORENZEN
I always thought, 'Will I go into the business, or will I not go into the business?' But whe...
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I was confident going into the second overtime because I'm at my best on the mat. In the sectional h...
JARED JAMINSKI
Guys like Bryce Treggs, Chris Harper, Kenny Lawler, Darius Powe, Richard Rodgers, Jackson Bouza. All...
JARED GOFF
This decline [in the jobless rate] is certainly the largest drop we've seen in recent months, so it ...
JARED BERNSTEIN
When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you ...
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