"Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?"

-- Ali Smith

“In our case, finding a Lucy is unique. No one will ever find another Lucy. You can't order one from a biological supply house. It's a unique discovery, a unique specimen.”

Source : "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.
“It's just funny that anybody would care at all to take apart the words that I write. It's kind of cool!”
“I thought the whole masturbation thing was really odd and really weird.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Unless he doesn't like sushi, then you also have to teach him to cook.”
“We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.”

Source : "Freedom fighters" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.
“I was very privileged and really blessed with so many material and spiritual gifts that I should give back, ... I should do something for my people, but ... it's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways.”

Source : "Then & Now: Corazon Aquino", www.cnn.com. September 19, 2005.
“I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.”
“Who you really are, is an immaterial soul and the body is an external thing that's sort of an encrustation your soul. So this has important implications for Plotinus' ethics, because his ethics are basically all about encouraging us to turn away from the body and turn towards these higher principles, so universal soul, universal intellect and ultimately the One.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au

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