Charles C. Mann Quotes
The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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I was going to finish my university degree after finishing 'The Tailors,' but 'Pinocchio' made me to take another semester off.
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I'm fascinated by Japanese cuisine.
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Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
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I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.
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The knack is to find your own inspiration and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.
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The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.