David M. Raup Quotes
It has been argued that dinosaurs did not die out, but just evolved wings and flew away. At a certain level, this reasoning is sound.... Birds, as a group, did descend from dinosaurs and ... all 8,600 species of birds living today carry some inheritance from their reptilian ancestors.
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In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
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There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it's much easier to say, 'No comment.'
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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.
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When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
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To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.
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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.
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I'm an urban act.
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Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.
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I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.
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I will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general sense and the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reason lies not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.
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We still have to struggle against the impact of racism, but it doesn't happen in the same way. I think it is much more complicated today than it ever was.
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I was freezing in that loincloth.
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It has been argued that dinosaurs did not die out, but just evolved wings and flew away. At a certain level, this reasoning is sound.... Birds, as a group, did descend from dinosaurs and ... all 8,600 species of birds living today carry some inheritance from their reptilian ancestors.
