"The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered."

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Source : "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race" by Jared Diamond, discovermagazine.com. May 01, 1999.

Jared Diamond

#Agriculture Quotes #Adoption Quotes #Way Quotes

“Disney has a bible for their characters, so that people who draw Disney characters have to make them look correct.”

Source : Interview with Kyrax2, comicsbulletin.com. May 7, 2012.
“The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history.”
“We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.”
“I still believe in what I believed in for 20 years as a Socialist in Parliament, and being a Socialist is not the same as being a utopian.”

Source : Source: realterrorist.wordpress.com
“A lot of people worry much too much about what their children are reading... If a child picks up a book and reads something she has a question about, if she can go to her parents, great. Or else they will read right over it. It won't mean a thing. They are very good, I think, at monitoring what makes them feel uncomfortable. If something makes them feel uncomfortable they will put it down.”
“I've got a lot of ham in me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“There’s something about pleasure I find annoying.”
“The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.”

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