Mary Leakey quotes
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“No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.”
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“I go once a year to the Serengeti to see the wildebeest migrations because that means a lot to me, but I avoid Olduvai if I can because it is a ruin. It is most depressing.”
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“There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn... No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely”
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“The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.”
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“I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.”
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“Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remains.”
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Source : Ernst Hans Gombrich, Didier Eribon (1993). “Looking for answers: conversations on art and science”, Harry N Abrams Inc
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“When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.”
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Source : "Israeli Journalist Amira Hass on Palestinian Resistance, 'Peace Talks' and U.S. Role in Region". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. April 10, 2013.
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“Risk is just an expensive substitute for information.”
Source : "The Upside". "HBR IdeaCast" with Paul Michelman, hbr.org.
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