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Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.


Jared Diamond


#africa #although #domestic #domesticated #ethiopia

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.


Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau


#already #america #anyone #attention #course

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.


William Falconer


#acquiring #advance #any #attained #degree

I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.


Charles Krauthammer


#allowing #believe #correct #grow #happen

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.


Willa Cather


#age #basic #before #fifteen #material

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.


Emile M. Cioran


#adapt #exert #first #freedom #fruitful

Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.


Derek Jacobi


#acquire #actor #detail #ellis #good

Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well.


Janos Kadar


#compatriots #earn #honour #only #other

It's definitely going to be harder than it sounds to acquire millions of users in the U.S. It's going to be a lot of work, and you can't make light of that.


Michael King


#definitely #going #harder #light #lot






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