"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."

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Source : Guenter Lewy (1996). “Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents”, p.21, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Carl Sagan

#Learning Quotes #Humility Quotes #Dolphins Quotes

“My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics. We're talking about a closeted person with minimum contact with reality who has trouble tying his f**king shoes! And he's supposed to be political? A bus driver has a better perspective on things. Artists are completely indulgent.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I don't think I've got the expertise with which to nit-pick, and I freely admit that my motivation to support charities has been emotional, rather than as a result of being particularly well informed as to how the money is used.”
“Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that no one ever mentioned it, an immediate sensual connection to people and events, and to her own needs and desires? All these years she had lived in isolation within herself and, strangely, from herself, never wanting or daring to look back.”
“I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.”
“I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.”
“In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.”
“When the going gets tough, you have to lie.”
“There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow.”

Source : Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.424, LSU Press

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