"I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried."

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Daniel Keyes

#Backyards Quotes #Body Quotes #Cheese Quotes

“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. "This is often considered to be man's first attempt at a calendar" she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. 'My question to you is this - what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman's first attempt at a calendar. It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women's contributions?”
“When Nietzsche praises egoism it is always in an aggressive or polemical way, against the virtues, against the virtue of disinterestedness (Z III "Of the three evil things"). But in fact egoism is a bad interpretation of the will, just as atomism is a bad interpretation of force. In order for there to be egoism it is necessary for there to be an ego.”
“Have you seen the snow leopard? No! Isn't that wonderful?”

Source : Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.269, Penguin
“New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.”
“I'm a survivalist and a survivor.”
“If the shoe fits, steal it.”

Source : Lou Krieger (2006). “Poker Player's Bible”, p.146, Struik
“Don't be someone that searches, finds and then runs away.”
“Our value system must conform to His. Our actions must conform to our values.”

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