"Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?"

-- Jared Diamond

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“The fear is simply because you are not living with life, You are living in your mind.”
“I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm a huge 'Futurama' fan, so that's my closest sci-fi tendency.”
“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”

Source : Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.614, Random House Books for Young Readers
“Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.”
“The strategy of semantic ascent is that it carries the discussion into a domain where both parties are better agreed on the objects (viz., words) and on the main terms connecting them. Words, or their inscriptions, unlike points, miles, classes and the rest, are tangible objects of the size so popular in the marketplace, where men of unlike conceptual schemes communicate at their best. The strategy is one of ascending to a common part of two fundamentally disparate conceptual schemes, the better to discuss the disparate foundations. No wonder it helps in philosophy.”
“What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?”
“Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.”

Source : "Chazz Palminteri: Feeling Mighty Fine" by Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2012.

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