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“To take some obvious examples: the territorial calls of birds are reproduced in automobile horn blowing, their alarm calls are reproduced in police sirens and their pleasure calls in the beach-side radio.”
― The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World
― The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World
“A better reason why we, and other intelligent species, are born with such poorly developed brains is so that we can learn.”
― What's Going on in There?: How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life
― What's Going on in There?: How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life
“Man I studied phychology, Theology, Archeology, the nervous system, The Brain, algerba, Anatomy, read the Bible four times in its entirety, politics, and so much more.”
― Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words
― Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words
“I want to know which is worse, to be ravished a hundred times by negro pirates, to have a buttock cut off, to run the gauntlet among the Bulgarians, to be whipped and hanged at an auto-da-fé, to be dissected, to row in the galleys—in short, to go through all the miseries we have undergone, or to stay here and have nothing to do?”
― Candide
― Candide
“Did I ever tell you that I want to wear a big yellow smiley-face mask and then put on the CD version of Bobby McFerrin’s ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’ and then take a girl and a dog—a collie, a chow, a sharpei, it doesn’t really matter—and then hook up this transfusion pump, this IV set, and switch their blood, you know, pump the dog’s blood into the hardbody and vice versa, did I ever tell you this?”
― American Psycho
― American Psycho
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