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Mounted Quotes by Jared Diamond
- African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldnt happen.
- 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…
- Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.
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- I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you… — Alistair Cooke
- We have 11 horses up at our country home, six of which are rescue animals ... Two of them are 'cop horses'… — Mary Tyler Moore
- I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted… — Buffalo Bill
- [Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all… — Francis Collins
- Lived in his saddle, loved the chase, the course, And always, ere he mounted, kiss'd his horse. — William Cowper
- To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory… — James Russell Lowell
- The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be… — Lewis H. Lapham
- What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth? — Robert Frost