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“The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing.” quote by Jared Diamond — Download Open image

“The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing.”

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“Throughout the Americas, diseases introduced with Europeans spread from tribe to tribe far in advance of the Europeans themselves, killing an estimated 95 percent of the pre-Columbian Native American population.”

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“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated merchants or wealthy planters, had been founded by one of its illiterate slaves, who, by the sheer force of personality, charisma, and determination, liberated America from foreign rule, united the people, created an alphabet, wrote the…

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Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths.

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I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it…

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The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges,…

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I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.

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Why' is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it. The alphabet does not…

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I used to have a little saying I used when people said, 'What are your priorities?' I'd give them a bit of government alphabet…

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All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.

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