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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.


Samuel Gompers


#children #ever #existed #money #offered

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.


Edmond de Goncourt


#ladder #man #playing #poet #puts

My father had a Super 8 camera when I was a kid and sometimes he would use it. I did some animation with it. I did a lot of flipbooks.


Michel Gondry


#camera #did #father #had #i

Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.


Michel Gondry


#clerk #faculty #favourite #frustration #get

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.


Christopher Meloni


#i #plays #screenplays #written

There is a preliminary belief that Tuolumne River water could be captured by other reservoirs that are downstream from Hetch Hetchy, the Cherry and Don Pedro reservoirs for instance. Furthermore, any shortfalls could be supplied via greater conservation efforts, newly discovered groundwater supplies, and water purchases when necessary.


Matt Gonzalez


#belief #captured #cherry #conservation #could

This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.


Matt Gonzalez


#believing #duty #elective #elective office #error

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.


Jane Goodall


#being #believe #birds #god #grew

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.


Jane Goodall


#been #between #brain #brains #closest

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.


Jane Goodall


#almost #always #back #behavior #characteristic






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