#pa

Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#armies #could #defeat #dozen #enabled

Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#coffee #competitors #countries #developing #effort

We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale. ↗

— Nick Rahall

#i #legislative #legislative process #part #process

All I know is that when I mix to digital and when I mix to tape I compare them and the tape always wins out. ↗

— Jim Diamond

#compare #digital #i #know #mix

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful. ↗

— Barry Diller

#made #painful #reality #reasons #too

Well, it was alleged that he was a member of the Communist Party. ↗

— Ethel Rosenberg

#communist #communist party #member #party #well

Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#isolated #patch #quality #snow #special

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible. ↗

— Otto Dix

#know #paints #portrait #possible #should

The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest. ↗

— Milovan Djilas

#come #living #own #part #rarest

My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#card #far #feelings #i #mixed