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A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge. ↗

— Richard Leakey

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I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#complete #different #east #found #guess

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases. ↗

— Ang Lee

#air force #bases #force #hometown #major

We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#concerned #could #destroyed #discovery #else

Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case. ↗

— Norman Lear

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Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make. ↗

— Norman Lear

#community #deal #directors #granted #great

I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it. ↗

— Norman Lear

#around #bad #gotta #hang #hear

I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times. ↗

— Norman Lear

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Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything. ↗

— Norman Lear

#big #big ones #collect #come #happiness

I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with. ↗

— Denis Leary

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