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"It is best for a country to employ its workers in the highest productivity endeavors."

-- Peter Schott, associate professor of economics at the School of Management, dismissing the belief that manufacturing jobs are better for an economy than those in services, "A String of Owners Adopted a Variety of Economic Models To Try To Run Britain's Last Volume Carmaker but Never Secured Its Long-term Viability," Financial Times of London, April 13, 2005.

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"Those episodes [of dramatic climate change] proved to be the single most important stimulus for the major transformations in human history.

... The historical lesson ... is that those societies had no knowledge of what was happening to them and certainly no historic knowledge of what could happen to them, where we have both."

-- Harvey Weiss, professor of Near Eastern languages and civilizations and of anthropology, on the effect that extreme changes in weather patterns had on the development of civilizations, "Clues to Clim