#us

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#adopt #considerable #either #else #fads

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

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#big business #business #doing #doing good #environment

I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late. ↗

— Jim Diamond

#am #been #busy #i #i am

In postscript let's just say that I am very fortunate cause I've gotten to work with a lot of great bands! ↗

— Jim Diamond

#bands #cause #fortunate #gotten #great

Next time we need to be on drugs and have lots of suffering and alcohol abuse going on while recording, I'm kinda picturing a Jerry Lee Lewis session from the mid Seventies. ↗

— Jim Diamond

#alcohol #going #i #jerry #kinda

I believed, up to last week, that Adam was somehow coming back. But I wouldn't trade that optimism for anything, because the other option is no fun. ↗

— Michael Diamond

#anything #back #because #believed #coming

We take our endorsements seriously. ↗

— Lincoln Diaz-Balart

#our #seriously #take

Well, if I used the privilege of self-incrimination at that time, I must have felt that perhaps there might be something that might incriminate me in answering. ↗

— Ethel Rosenberg

#felt #i #me #might #must

More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#been #commercial #industry #jobs #lost