"Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science."

-- Jared Diamond

#Animal Quotes #Years Quotes #Effort Quotes

“If I am an angry man, it is my duty to pray for charity, which suffereth long and is kind.”
“I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that's all we came here for.”
“The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.”

Source : Harold Adams Innis (1948). “Minerva's owl: presidential address reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Canada, 1947”
“I knew, as sure as I knew my name, that tomorrow he would send me another coat, in a big fancy box, with a big bow on it. It would be the right size, it would be a top brand, and it would be warm. ............... It was cranberry red, with a removable liner, a detachable hood, and tortoiseshell buttons.”
“I just love to play rock and roll. I love to write songs all the time about what's up on these streets. I write songs about people getting killed; I write songs about people getting beaten up; I write songsabout people getting taken to jail by the police; and I also write songs about love and happiness.”
“Don't ever speak publicly about anything that you're not passionate about and that you don't actually believe you have something truly unique about it to deliver.”
“On the Richter scale of love and romance, you've hit a twelve.”
“Let me in, immigration man, can I cross the line and pray, I can stay another day? Won't you let me in, immigration man? I won't toe your line today, I can't see it anyway.”

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