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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

#ago #been #criteria #despite #domestic

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. ↗

— Zhuang Zi

#generous #great #impassioned #petty #small

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#both #distinct #drawbacks #females #idea

That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard of. That is something in the culture we are trying to change. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#company #conglomerate #culture #heard #help

I realized my life was not going to be, per se, normal. ↗

— Josh Ryan Evans

#i #life #my life #normal #per

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#animal #ends #everything #i #i am

I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.' ↗

— Sam Elliott

#been #boy #career #earlier #formal

When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do. ↗

— Roland Emmerich

#even #excited #exciting #find #get

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. ↗

— Henry Ford

#hard #into #jobs #nothing #particularly

I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children. ↗

— Tracy K. Smith

#california #called #children #exactly #five