"Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social."

-- Clay Shirky

#Gorillas Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Social Quotes

“Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.”
“What we're doing here will send a giant ripple through the universe.”
“I wanted to get clean. I knew that my highest potential, the place that I was most spiritual, the place that I was the most rich in terms of my life, and my livelihood, and my art and my creativity, was when I was sober.”
“Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.”

Source : Tami Hoag (2003). “Ashes to Ashes: A Novel”, p.71, Bantam
“Use of the word; the word itself was not printed.”
“There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more primitive instrument. Then it comes to the United States where it morphs into the slave music that they created here, which was very African in origin.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It's often pointed out that in Cuban cinema there are too many comedies, but a sense of humor is so much part of the Cuban idiosyncrasy. Curiously, the films that have been censored the most have been humorous.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.”

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