"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

#Animal Quotes #Land Quotes #World Quotes

“People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!”
“Hopefully, you'll be able to find enough of an audience, each time, that you can keep working, rather than getting caught up in the Hollywood system, which can so quickly become about how much money something makes and how many people went to watch it. It's very alluring. It's such a powerful machine that's playing on you, the whole time.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.”

Source : Elsie Clews Parsons (1997). “Fear and Conventionality”, p.138, University of Chicago Press
“Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality. Practical dreamers do not quit.”
“One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.”
“I dissolved, so white, so unapproachable, amid my white flame, in the whiteness of moonlight”
“If we donâ€™t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen.”
“A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.”

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