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“The worst thing you can do is nothing. (re: teaching children with autism)”
― Temple Grandin

“Animals make us Human.”
― Temple Grandin

“I don’t want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I’m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning.”
― Temple Grandin

“I am different, not less.”
― Temple Grandin

“Nature is cruel but we don't have to be”
― Temple Grandin, The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism & Asperger's

“I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.”
― Temple Grandin

“You simply cannot tell other people they are stupid, even if they really are stupid.”
― Temple Grandin, The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism & Asperger's

“I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm animal or a pet, is to base animal welfare programs on the core emotion systems in the brain. My theory is that the environment animals live in should activate their positive emotions as much as possible, and not activate their negative emotions any more than necessary. If we get the animal's emotions rights, we will have fewer problem behaviors... All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain.”
― Temple Grandin, Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

“We raise them for us; that means we owe them some respect. nature is creul but we dont have to be. I wouldnt want to have my guts ripped out by a lion. I'd much rather die in a slaughter house if it were done right.”
― Temple Grandin

“Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“Vitam impendre vero. (To stake one's life for the truth.)”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.
-Aunt Beast”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway