"Science can't tell us what our life means ethically. It can't tell us what we are meant to do as moral creatures. But, insofar as science can understand what we're made of, and what we're related to, the Darwinian revolution completely revised our ideas about who we are and what we're related to and how long we've been here and why we're on this Earth."

-- Stephen Jay Gould

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“There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.”

Source : Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Master Georgie”, p.65, Hachette UK
“I'm going to be doing exactly what I'm doing now - teaching people about animals.”
“We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.”
“Soon Hansel and Gretel came to a little cottage. When they got quite near, they saw that the little house was made of bread and roofed with cake. The windows were transparent sugar." "There must not have been a very strict building code...”
“War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.”
“writers just kept on staring at nothing until they wrote something. Might be two minutes or two weeks.”

Source : Martha Grimes (2004). “Foul Matter”, p.68, Penguin
“I became a vegetarian 55 years ago, and I think it's one of the more important behavioral changes I ever took. The more I see of the beef industry and so on, I believe that to be true.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me feel anxious.”

Source : "Exclusive: Penélope Cruz on Shooting the 2013 Campari Calendar". Interview with Kristina Soriano, www.elle.com. November 13, 2012.

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