#native

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World. ↗

— Jared Diamond

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Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#americas #animal #camels #cattle #could

The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#africa #african #beyond #central #consequences

I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid. ↗

— Mario Vazquez

#amp #hip-hop #i #i love #jazz

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#alternative #custodian #foolish #goals #good

For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about. ↗

— John Thorn

#alternative #behind #care #continuity #family

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#america #aspect #back #british #certain

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. ↗

— James Thurber

#composition #curious #fast #getting #graphic

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#coloring #emerges #every #explicitly #imaginative

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#beings #dear #early #enough #feel