"No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link fossils into chains of cause and effect in any valid way... To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bedtime story-amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific."

-- Henry Gee

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“What else could I tell them? I like my women like I like my whiskey: 12 years old and mixed up with coke.”
“I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death....is the true measure of the Divine within us.”
“Low aim, not failure, is the crime.”
“Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.”

Source : "Obama and Gay Marriage: Runaway Bride?". www.newyorker.com. June 30, 2011.
“The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing.”
“The imagination is like a muscle: it strengthens through use.”
“Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.”

Source : "Afghanistan War Review Conclusions Misguided" by Barbara Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2010.
“What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.”

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