The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.
→One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.
→Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.
→The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
→Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
→The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
→Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.
→Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat.
→We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids' diets from a very early age, which helped to develop their palates and prevented them from becoming picky eaters. We don't buy junk food and give them options of fresh fruit, yogurt, raw almonds, or dried whole grain cereals for snack time.
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