Top 22 Charles C. Mann Quotes
#1. Rare is the human spirit that remains buoyant in a holocaust.
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#2. The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take each other into consideration, it's not uncommon for ecologists to spout absolute nonsense about economics, and vice versa.
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#3. A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.
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#4. The chronological list of rulers differs on different lists, some lists do not include known kings, and some include kings who probably were mythological - as if a tally of English rulers matter-of-factly included King Arthur and his father, Uther Pendragon. The
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#5. Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests.
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#6. [T]he Indian deaths were such a severe financial blow to the colonies that...[t]o resupply themselves with labor, the Spaniards began importing slaves from Africa.
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#7. Like most Maya rulers, Chak Tok Ich'aak spent a lot of his time luxuriating in his court while dwarf servants attended to his whims and musicians played conch shells and wooden trumpets in the background. But
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#8. It is always easy for those living in the present to feel superior to those who lived in the past.
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#9. The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.
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#10. He that speaks seldom and opportunely, being as good as his word, is the only man they love," Wood explained. Character
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#11. The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.
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#12. Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit.
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#13. The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.
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#14. Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.
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#16. By the eve of the American Revolution, a third of the native people in Rhode Island were enslaved. Indian bondage was more common still in the southern
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#17. Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of cases, this has not yet been translated into treatments that can help cure patients. These treatments will come - tomorrow, or the day after.
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#18. A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.
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#20. The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end.
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#21. Few things are more sublime or characteristically human than the cross-fertilization of cultures.
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#22. Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.
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