#which

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

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#every #every man #man #many #men

The terrorists know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts. They understand that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests. ↗

— Elizabeth Dole

#democratic #democratic iraq #derail #efforts #free

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#children #existence #felt #finely #injustice

Well, it's a nice quiet time for Iron Maiden, and I'll be releasing a new solo album next year, so this is a really good time for the managing out my solo career, which is quite well. ↗

— Bruce Dickinson

#career #good #good time #i #iron

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#art #dazzling #glorious #level #literature

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#deny #essential #great #kind #petty

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. ↗

— Joan Didion

#life #own #responsibility #self-respect #source

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. ↗

— Joan Didion

#because #difficult #europeans #guilty #materialistic

I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else. ↗

— Joan Didion

#adoption #been #else #feels #i