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		Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Alan Feduccia 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		In my race, there's 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something you gotta get over, and it's what you do, you know. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
				Gail Devers 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Fanny Burney 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Danger Mouse 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect for being one of the greats in hip-hop, and because of that, the fire never burned out. There's more and more of a need for me to succeed or take the legacy a step further, and that's what it is. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Fat Joe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Lane Evans 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Orson Scott Card 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				W. H. Auden 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Larry Wall 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		That was the danger Samuel Butler jestingly prophesied in Erewhon, the danger that the human being might become a means whereby the machine perpetuated itself and extended its dominion. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Lewis Mumford 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've been overseas more than you have in your whole little life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Anderson Cooper 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My whole life, as an adult as well, I've been attracted to stories about young people. This period of time is so fertile - there's a million things that are happening, a million firsts, and to be able to witness that and record that is a privilege. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jenny Han 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I actually think, as unusual as it might sound, that working in the White House is an extraordinary life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to so so from the neck up instead of from the neck down. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jimmy Doolittle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				John W. Foster 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Responsibility is something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success. Responsibility to the order of Being, where, and only where, they will be properly judged. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Vaclav Havel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I busted my bird for 60 years in the business, but my grandkids only know me as Mr. Potato Head. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Don Rickles 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Alan Feduccia