#wil

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#ago #been #criteria #despite #domestic

William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time. ↗

— James Dickey

#great #must #our #our time #packard

Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins. ↗

— Joan Didion

#angels #anyone #ask #asked #committed

Turning the Internet over to the U.N. or some other phony international organization would be a disaster, and I am not willing to stand by and let it happen. ↗

— John Doolittle

#disaster #happen #i #i am #international

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#acquire #apply #better #continuously #develop

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it's all just noise that lets me know that I'm relevant. ↗

— Drake

#because #boo #cheer #days #i

What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them. ↗

— Diane Duane

#any #hopes #i #many #me

You have to believe that things will happen, you have to work and love what you're doing. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

#doing #happen #love #things #will

I'm working on inventing an aerosol spray that repels papparazi. I haven't perfected it but when I do I will make millions. ↗

— Josh Duhamel

#i #i do #inventing #make #millions

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it. ↗

— Richard Whately

#all day #day #hour #looking #lose