Found among Lines, 12.10

As so often with evolution, a feature that appeared for one purpose was recruited for quite another one.
(...)
The group to which we belong together with our evolutionary relatives, the primates, was initially rather an inconspicuous part of this radiation.

[RFortey]

12.10.26

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Parenting is the scarce resource.

[JHeckman]

12.10.22

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El directo sólo es electricidad.

[AEspada]

12.10.02

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By 1960 a third of all prescriptions from US doctors were for Miltown or a similar drug called Equanil.

[Quiet]

12.10.15

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Found among Lines, 12.11

"Señor, queremos matar a alguien", dijo el portavoz de los insurgentes. "En Truxillo han matado a alguien, en Badajoz a uno o dos, otro en Mérida, y nosotros no vamos a ser menos que nuestros vecinos. Señor, queremos matar a un traidor". Como en el pueblo no tenían este material, fue una suerte para nosotros no aparecer en aquel momento cuando la buena gente de Almaráz podría habernos utilizado como sustituto en quien mosrar su lealtad.

[La maldita guerra de ESpaña]

12.11.15

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"Estos y otros se dirigen a casa (de su secretario) Garrigó lo arrastran por la casa le matan, roban, queman ropas, trastes y quanto hay en casa, lo dexan enteramente [des]nudo, muerto le dan mil cuchilladas y lo echan a la hoguera.

[La maldita guerra de ESpaña]

12.11.20

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Found among Lines, 12.09

"The first duty and the right of the art of war is to keep policy from demanding things that go against the nature of war, to prevent the possibility that out of ignorance of the way the instrument works, policy might misuse it".

[Von Clausewitz]

12.09.23

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"It's so damn complex. If you ever think that you have the solution to this, you're wrong and you're dangerous".

[Dereliction of Duty]

12.09.23

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"The upshot, say critics, is a stock market so complex and opaque that many investors have little idea about how it operates and are made wary of it by the repeated glitches".

[FT]

12.09.23

Found among Lines 12.02

“Do I have one rupee to spend to save your life?”
[Poverty as Destiny]

12.02.13

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