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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
Haile Selassie
Free
Own
Other
Those
Independent
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Indigenous
Civilizations
Economically
Continents
Were
Years
Years Ago
Truly
Cultures
Politically
Africa
African
Which
Patterns
Social
Centuries
Comparison
Suffer
Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.
Jane Goodall
Living
Harmony
Hundreds
Way
Hundreds Of Thousands
Say
Destroying
Would
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
More
Never
Environment
Been
Years
Forest
Than
Being
As Far As
Fantastic
Far
Us
Successful
Lives
We're never gonna get rid of crazy people. They've been around for thousands of years - they'll continue to be around; they'll continue to do horrible things.
Michael Moore
Crazy
People
Crazy People
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Horrible
Horrible Things
Never
Around
Continue
Been
Years
Get
Gonna
Rid
Things
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
Richard P. Feynman
Future
Time
Problems
Responsibility
Beginning
Our
Solutions
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Unreasonable
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Learn
Pass
Years
Very
Improve
Human
Race
Them
Human Race
Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
Barbara De Angelis
Crazy
Women
Training
Men
Drive
Difficult
Intimate
Way
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Because
Makes
Been
Years
Very
Trained
Want
I surely don't think ignorance is bliss. But like everything else that has survived thousands of years of human evolution, ignorance - like denial, self-delusion, and magical thinking - seems to have its uses.
Scott Spencer
Ignorance
Denial
Think
Thinking
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Evolution
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Magical
Seems
Self-Delusion
Like
Surely
Bliss
Years
Survived
Human
Human Evolution
Ignorance Is Bliss
Uses
Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.
James Lovelock
Change
Year
Changing
Our
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Seeing
Lifetimes
Takes
Also
Climate
Geological
Years
Just
Happen
I have never been to Mars. What will we discover when we get there? A red landscape, quiet horizon, frozen glaciers? Probably all is as beautiful, in its own way, as the Earth was thousands of years ago.
Ma Yansong
Beautiful
Will
Own
Earth
Way
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Mars
Horizon
Glaciers
Never
Red
Been
Discover
Years
Years Ago
Quiet
Get
Frozen
Landscape
Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Humanity
Will
Our
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Ancestors
Complexity
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
More
Advance
Advancing
Towards
Know
Greater
Always
How
Still
Line
Continue
Years
Condition
Same
Keep
Ever
Consciousness
In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
Taslima Nasrin
Women
Mind
Men
Long
Motherhood
Controlling
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Fabricated
Chastity
Like
Concepts
Traditional
Been
Years
Legacy
Victims
Body
Notions
Societies
Our bodies and minds evolved and were adapted for hundreds of thousands of years for tasks like climbing a tree and picking apples, or hunting rabbits, or looking for mushrooms in the forest. They were not adapted to the very gruelling work that is involved in field work - ploughing, harvesting, bringing water, digging weeds - things like that.
Yuval Noah Harari
Work
Water
Looking
Field
Tree
Mushrooms
Digging
Our
Minds
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Harvesting
Evolved
Hunting
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Weeds
Picking
Like
Involved
Climbing
Were
Years
Forest
Very
Tasks
Rabbits
Bodies
Apples
Things
Bringing
Adapted
I was so fanatical about trying to save wildlife... I was unable to accept that we couldn't solve this problem of thousands of years, of wherever humans operated, the environment deteriorated.
Allan Savory
Problem
Wildlife
Unable
Solve
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Deteriorated
About
Environment
Operated
Accept
Years
Trying
Fanatical
Wherever
Humans
Save
Chinese artists have been subversive over thousands of years, taking what they think of the government and embedding it in their art. There might be censorship of not going as far as they might.
Amy Tan
Art
Government
Censorship
Think
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Taking
Over
Been
Years
Going
Artists
As Far As
Chinese
Subversive
Might
Far
There is evidence that we are headed into what would be the planet's sixth mass extinction. It's hard to know for sure if you're in one because a mass extinction is an event where over 75 percent of the species on the planet die out over a - usually about a million-year period. The fastest it might happen is in hundreds of thousands of years.
Annalee Newitz
You
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Evidence
Out
Would
Would-Be
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
About
Percent
Headed
Mass
Over
Know
Period
Sure
Because
Years
Die
Sixth
Where
Happen
Might
Planet
Hard
Event
Species
Fastest
Extinction
But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
Arne Jacobsen
Home
You
Later
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Emerge
Invented
Abroad
Inspiration
Come
House
Well
Course
None
Years
Years Ago
Sink
Impressions
Done
May
Us
Asked
Fortunately
Many
Found
I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Joy
Collective
Think
Back
Say
Evolutionary
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Tend
Generating
Go
Years
Tragic
Human
Human Capacity
Which
Capacity
Use
Appears
Techniques
Hardwired
Biologists
I don't know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today.
Beth Moore
Today
Courage
Women
Took
Kind
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Know
Courageous
How
Years
Years Ago
Need
Christianity, with or without its whole apparatus of dogma, will endure in its essence for thousands of years after us; there will always be spiritually-minded people who will be ennobled by it, and some made great.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Great
People
Will
Made
Christianity
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Some
Without
Always
Dogma
Years
Essence
Endure
After
Us
Apparatus
Who
Whole
Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.
Brian Greene
Science
Our
Ourselves
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Adventure
Sought
Understand
Greatest
Been
Years
Surroundings
Unfolding
Stories
My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years.
Busta Rhymes
Success
Culture
Thinking
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Take
Years
Going
For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
Caitlin Doughty
Death
Home
You
People
World
Care
Own
Would
Would-Be
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Ritual
Take
Take Care
Taken
Involved
Been
Years
Western
End
Surrounding
Western World
Did
Die
Processes
Us
Your
Away
My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.
Carlos Slim
Beautiful
Art
Culture
Parents
Country
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Beautiful Things
Always
Were
Years
Mexico
Surrounded
Artistic
Experienced
Which
Things
Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.
Carol P. Christ
Will
Values
Before
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Never
Years
Questioned
Sway
Held
Beliefs
The coronation is a symbol of power, but it's not a symbol for us the people. It's a symbol for that person, who is a human, to become a higher being and become one with God. The church, the scepter, and the crown have been around forever. And the line of kings of England goes back thousands of years.
Claire Foy
God
People
Church
Power
Become
Back
Coronation
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Kings
Crown
Higher
Around
Line
Been
Years
Forever
Person
Goes
Human
Being
Us
England
Who
Symbol
The monarchy is thousands of years old and has experienced many things like 'The Crown' in the past. They're always changing and evolving; that's the thing. They have to.
Claire Foy
Old
Past
Changing
Evolving
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Crown
Like
Always
Years
Experienced
In The Past
Many
Monarchy
Thing
Things
There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
D. B. Weiss
You
Sense
Later
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Read
Makes
Still
Years
Reason
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