"The public image of dinosaurs is tainted by extinction. It's hard to accept dinosaurs as a success when they are all dead. But the fact of ultimate extinction should not make us overlook the absolutely unsurpassed role dinosaurs played in the history of life."

-- Robert T. Bakker

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“I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.”
“As a rule people don't think other people on drugs are funny. They think they are tragic. They have a point, but I still had the funny.”

Source : "Spoonful of Sugar : Natasha Lyonne's Sweet Comeback" by Shira Levine, Heeb Magazine, January 20, 2009.
“You've just got to go out there and try to control the things you can control. Deal with things and stay mentally strong.”
“Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.”

Source : sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy”, p.7
“Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.”
“You may think you find peace in Christ when you have no outward troubles, but is Christ your peace when the Assyrian comes into the land, when the enemy comes?...Jesus Christ would be peace to the soul when the enemy comes into the city, and into your houses.”

Source : Jeremiah Burroughs (1651). “The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment ...”, p.71
“Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex adoption bans will be as unspeakable and inexplicable to my grandchildren as counting a slave as three-fifths of a human being.”

Source : "Reparations for Gay Americans". The Detroit Free Press, April 07, 2009.
“Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.”

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