"My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves."

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Richard Leakey

#Father Quotes #Culture Quotes #Evolution Quotes

“Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.”

Source : British Academy of Film and Television Arts website, December 2009.
“Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.”

Source : Henning Mankell (2010). “Faceless Killers: Kurt Wallander”, p.290, Random House
“The cars themselves are getting smarter and will be increasingly able to assist drivers - to the point where the cars will be completely automated.”
“The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standardised pressures upon their followers.The Sufi way, except in degenerate forms which are not to be classified as Sufic, is entirely different from this.”
“And they all lived happily ever after (barring death, divorce, arrest for tax fraud, that incident with the pool boy...)”
“As governor of Lagos, I never signed a cheque and never fixed contract prices.”
“For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go.”
“Get them to sing your song and they will want to know who you are.”

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