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“We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should recognize that nonhuman organisms need not meet every new definition of human language, tool use, mind, or consciousness in order to have versions of their own that are worthy of serious study. We have set ourselves too much apart, grasping for definitions that will distinguish man from all other life on the planet. We must rejoin the great stream of life from whence we arose and strive to see within it the seeds of all we are and all we may become.”
Source : Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Roger Lewin (1996). “Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind”, Wiley
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“What's more, sharia finance is another tool of Islamic separatism; instead of assimilating into American society, Muslims are demanding, and receiving, parallel financial institutions that reinforce the idea that they are unique, not subject to the laws and norms to which the rest of us are subject-a privileged class. At the same time, sharia finance initiatives are giving Islamic interests increased control over Western economic life.”
Source : Robert Spencer (2008). “Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam Is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs”, p.185, Regnery Publishing
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“I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.”
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“That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.”
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“We are like highly trained athletes, who never run a race.”
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“I dreamed that I was being raped by Freddy Mercury.”
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“A beach walk is for stretching your legs and your mind, for looking at life with newfound eyes.”
Source : Sandy Gingras (2010). “Walks on the Beach”, p.1, Andrews McMeel Publishing
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“A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it.”
