"If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life."

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Source : "The Dinosaur Heresies: A Revolutionary View of Dinosaurs". Book by Robert T. Bakker (p. 16), 1986.

Robert T. Bakker

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“I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the precipice.”
“It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.”
“Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.”
“Neither Goyl nor men lived long enough to understand that yesterday was born of tomorrow, just as tomorrow was born of yesterday.”
“I'm so grateful for what Disney gave me and the experiences that I got, but at the end of the day, I can do so much more than what I did on that channel and in those movies.”
“Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully about their placement in relation to each other.”
“The thing is, I don't want to be sold to when I walk into a store. I want to be welcomed.”
“The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices.”

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