"There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and fifty BILLION species have existed at one time or another. Thus, only about one in a thousand species is still alive--a truly lousy survival record: 99.9 percent failure!"

-- David M. Raup

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“I prefer to be left alone with my books.”

Source : Alison Weir (2006). “Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey”, Random House LLC
“Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine.”

Source : Esi Edugyan (2012). “Half-Blood Blues: A Novel”, p.37, Macmillan
“ALL KNOWLEDGE is possible for anyone - and the Cosmos gives it to him who asks, but all information is impossible.”
“To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem.”

Source : "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.
“Picture in your mind a sense of personal destiny.”
“Whenever I'm doing any film, there's always three different things. There's the script, which is really just a blueprint. And then, you shoot the movie and it's an entirely different experience than you would expect from reading the script. And then, there's the whole post process and the editing, and it becomes something else entirely.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.”

Source : Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It's a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.”

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