"With respect to why some acquired savants are musical, and some are good at the arts, and some are mathematical, why aren't they all the same; I think that has to do with this genetic endowment that all of us have."

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Darold Treffert

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Musical Quotes

“I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.”
“If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?”

Source : "W.T.F.?". Book by H. M. Leathem, 2006.
“The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they sent the young out to die. Was was a get-together of the vain. They wanted it simple--hate your enemy, know nothing of him.”
“Without fear we must set sail on the digital sea.”
“Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.”
“I think it was Osama bin Laden's [idea to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq].”
“I've had all the lessons I could get. I've learned from everybody I've ever met.”
“(The Hack-A-Shaq is) just a way of telling me that you can't stop me. Thank you. I appreciate it.”

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