"Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm bone or a leg bone. Here was 40 percent of a single skeleton."

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Source : "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

Donald Johanson

#Skeletons Quotes #Hands Quotes #Legs Quotes

“I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.”
“Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.188, Vintage
“I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.”
“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.”
“We [European countries] probably need to move forward together, each at their own speed. The faster ones, that could be the countries in the euro zone. The others would be those who are interested in the continued development of the common market, but reject the idea of an ever stronger political integration.”
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. N. B.: This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing.”

Source : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.
“People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is to stand up. It takes a lot of courage.”
“On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.”

Source : How to Be an Alien (1946)

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