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- Nov 07, 2020
Domesticated Quotes
Quotes on taming nature, and taming big ideas.
These domesticated quotes move from pig farming regulation to domesticated plants and animals across different regions and eras. See related history in Animal quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Animals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiddling with the genetic identities of domesticated plants and animals ever since we had become human. We are the fiddlingest animal the world has ever seen.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.
- Animal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!
- Biotechnology
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing - we're domesticated apes with a microphone.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't see myself as a very domesticated person, with a suburb house and stuff like that.
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- Nov 07, 2020