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Edward Kennedy
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“At the time of the Cognitive Revolution, the planet was home to about 200 genera of large terrestrial mammals weighing over 100 pounds. At the time of the Agricultural Revolution, only about a hundred remained. Homo sapiens drove to extinction about half of the planet’s big beasts long before humans invented the wheel, writing, or iron tools.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Forty thousand suicides every year in America. One every thirteen minutes. Statistically we’re more likely to kill ourselves than each other.”
― Make Me
― Make Me
“Australian pro surfer Dave Rastovich, straddling his board waiting for a wave, was astonished to watch a dolphin hurtle itself at a shark that was torpedoing toward him, sending it fleeing. (Coincidentally, only two days earlier Rastovich had launched a nonprofit group, Surfers for Cetaceans, to protect dolphins and whales.)”
― Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins
― Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins
“I felt like someone else. I felt like a normal person. But I got over it.”
― Make Me
― Make Me
“In his view, a corpse was merely an empty vessel for the spirit it had housed. “The soul,” he’d said one night by a campfire in the Valley of the Kings, “is like a falcon. Despite its loyalty to the falconer, it longs to fly free. When my time comes, let my soul soar into the wind and the sky. Wherever its natural home is meant to be, that’s where it will go.”
― The Einstein Prophecy
― The Einstein Prophecy
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