"It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya,……" — Richard Leakey
"It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads."
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Richard Leakey
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43 Quotes by Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey has 43 quotes on this site.
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My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.
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Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of…
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It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its…
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In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be…
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Climate change: We have never faced a more critical time on our planet
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It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are…
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It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors.
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For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be…
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Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to…
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The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.
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Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs…
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Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best…
— Aristotle
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
— Franklin P. Adams
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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet,…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
— Arnold Bennett
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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to…
— William Ellery Channing
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Our first problem is that our attitude towards sin is more self-centred than God-centred. We are more concerned about our…
— Jerry Bridges
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[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
— Albert Einstein
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what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics;…
— Thomas Jefferson
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