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Axis 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…
More Axis Quotes
- 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
- More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- States like these [Iran, Iraq, North Korae], and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of… — George W. Bush
- Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis. — Carroll Smith
- All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies. — Anne Carson
- Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake. And… — Peter Tosh
- I've come to think that the universe is a four-dimensional site in which nothing is changing and nothing is moving. The only… — Alan Moore