"Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task."

-- Richard Leakey

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“When I'm watching sports I can't be bothered.”

Source : Interview with Rick Chandler, deadspin.com. May 2, 2007.
“They've got a great team, I really like them. They're a young team, and they've done what the Twins did in that division a few years ago. This is what happens when you get a core group of guys and let them play with each other for three, four years. You get a special bunch. They're having fun you can see it.”
“To be content does not mean that you don't desire more, it means you're thankful for what you have and patient for what's to come.”
“It's an old axiom of mine: marry your enemies and behead your friends.”
“I'm probably taller than 90% of the men I meet.”
“I believe that there are forces of light and darkness in the world, and I don't want to be a contributor to the force of darkness.”
“I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs”
“Listening is a rare happening among human beings. You cannot listen to the word another is speaking if you are preoccupied with your appearance, or with impressing the other, or are trying to decide what you are going to say when the other stops talking, or are debating about whether what is being said is true or relevant or agreeable. Such matters have their place, but only after listening to the word as the word is being uttered. Listening is a primitive act of love in which a person gives himself to anotherâ€™s word, making himself accessible and vulnerable to that word.”

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