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My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

Kate DiCamillo

Family

Father

World

I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?

Cameron Diaz

World

It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.

Cameron Diaz

Causes

World

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Princess Diana

Family

World

I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world looking after me.

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.

Jared Diamond

Population

World

Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with.

Jared Diamond

Land

World

The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources.