"It's very important for the parents of young autistic children to encourage them to talk, or for those that don't talk, to give them a way of communicating, like a picture board, where they can point to a glass of milk, or a jacket if they're cold, or the bathroom. If they want something, then they need to learn to request that thing."

-- Temple Grandin

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“Growing up in Hollywood, like I did, I have a passion and a love for the movies, so I go to the cinema all the time.”
“Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.”
“Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.”
“I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.”

Source : "Laugh Off: The Comedy Showdown Between Real Life and the Pros". Book by Bob Fenster, 2005.
“According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or liberation to act on our desires-it is, rather, liberation from slavery to those desires, from slavery to self.”
“You come to work because the office is a resource: The office is a place where you can meet with other people, and the office has libraries of books and information on CD-ROM that might help you with your work.”
“Even an ordinary broken chord is made to disclose rare beauties; we are reminded of the fairies' hazelnuts in which diamonds were concealed but you could break the shell only if your hands were blessed.”

Source : The Manchester Guardian, 1939.
“We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.”

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