"War is part of our history, but it is not in at all the same sense part of our prehistory. It is one of the innovations that occurred between nine and eleven thousand years ago when the first civilized societies were coming into being. What has been invented can be changed; war is not in our genes."

-- Gwynne Dyer

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“I'm pretending to be a vegetarian. Were I not, I believe I probably still wouldn't eat a wallaby.”

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“With me, you never know what is going to happen”
“Yanagihara's most impressive trick is the way she glides from scenes filled with those terrifying hyenas to moments of epiphany. 'Wasn't it a miracle to have survived the unsurvivable? Wasn't friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely? Wasn't this house, this beauty, this comfort, this life a miracle?' A Little Life devotes itself to answering those questions, and is, in its own dark way, a miracle.”
“One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us.”
“I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented.”
“A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.”
“I beseech you now with all my heart definitely to let me know your whole mind as to the love between us...”
“To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.”

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