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Axes Quotes by Jared Diamond
- Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, like that of the Americas, is north/south rather than…
- Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's east/west axis meant that species domesticated in one part of…
- In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it was…
More Axes Quotes
- We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis. — Jeb Bush
- Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their… — Thomas Carlyle
- To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
- There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere… — Louise Bogan
- An amino acid residue (other than glycine) has no symmetry elements. The general operation of conversion of one residue of a single… — Linus Pauling
- I've been playing the CNN Drinking Game, have you ever played that? Where you do a shot every time George Bush says… — Doug Stanhope
- Whether it's the Axis of Evil, or the evils of eating meat, it is a concept that has all but lost the… — Corey Taylor