The conquistadors and their followers were very rough people, and they were fixated on gold and silver. They were oblivious to the astonishing achievements of the Inca civilisation.


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My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their compa...
PETER ZUMTHOR
The celebration... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your...
PETER BONDRA
When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I join...
PETER COYOTE
To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
IRENE PETER
Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.
IRENE PETER
Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
IRENE PETER
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
IRENE PETER
Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
IRENE PETER
Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
IRENE PETER
There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The w...
PETER CAPALDI
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
PETER MARSHALL
Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.
PETER BENCHLEY
The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to k...
PETER LINDBERGH
New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.
PETER JACKSON
The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.
PETER SINGER
Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could m...
PETER BENCHLEY
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming indi...
PETER DRUCKER
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
PETER DRUCKER
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
PETER DRUCKER
I spent two years at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and then some New York types saw me there a...
PETER MACNICOL
Between November 23, 2002, and January 11, 2003, al-Qahtani was interrogated for 48 days at Guantana...
PETER BERGEN
I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's go...
PETER DIAMANDIS
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't...
PETER DRUCKER
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
PETER DRUCKER
Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
PETER DRUCKER
Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
PETER DRUCKER
I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.
PETER TOSH
There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.
PETER HOLLINGWORTH
A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had n...
PETER ABRAHAMS
I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.
PETER STEELE
Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.
PETER ORSZAG