"So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to contextualize it -- the archaeology, the linguistic pattern, even the climatology."

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Source : "Finding the roots of modern humans" by Marsha Walton, www.cnn.com. April 14, 2005.

Spencer Wells

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“It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstractoÂ—it is invisible, immortal, and rests only in intendment and consideration of the law.”
“People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.”
“I g-g-guess...I'm dead?" she heard her own voice call out, strangely high-pitched and thin. For a long time, she heard nothing else. And then: "Hi, Dead. I'm Dan.”

Source : Peter Lerangis (2009). “The Sword Thief”, p.62, Scholastic Inc.
“Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.”
“We [Americans] move about the world arrogantly, calling wars when we want, overthrowing governments when we want. There is a price to be paid for it -- look at 9/11. [That] wasn't just bin Laden. Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see America's hand of villainy.”
“Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.”
“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”

Source : Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 19 March 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 81
“I used to pride myself on being the first in the office in the morning and one of the last to leave at night. Now, that's so dated: It's not about effort, it's about outcomes.”

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