"The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s."

-- Jared Diamond

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“I wanted to be a professional singer/actress, though I knew it would be hard.”
“I remember I was so crabby in my third trimester - I got gestational diabetes because I'd been acting like I was in a one-woman pie-eating contest.”
“The key to making money in angel investing is saying no. You meet with 100 companies and say no to 99 of them.”
“We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.”

Source : "Ali Smith". Book by Ali Smith, therumpus.net. 2012.
“Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by disaster. ... I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space. I therefore want to encourage public interest in space.”
“We had more viewers on the broadcast network than we did on the cable channel.”
“At age 20 I went to go find my father in Nigeria. And after much toil, I finally figured out exactly where he was. And there's something about seeing your father for the first time - my mother destroyed all pictures of him.”
“A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.”

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