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• If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing', that I think is culpable. I don't know how much more they expect me to be doing, I'd better ask them.

  David Attenborough

  Grandchildren, Thinking, Looks

  "David Attenborough: 'I'm an essential evil'". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• The problem of individual differences and group differences would not be made to disappear by abolishing tests. One cannot treat a fever by throwing away the thermometer.

  Arthur Jensen

  Individual Differences, Groups, Fever

  Arthur Robert Jensen (1980). “Bias in Mental Testing”

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• When football stars disappear, so do the teams, and that is a very curious phenomenon. It is like in the theatre, in a play, where there is a great star. If the star is not well, the whole cast suffers.

  Pele

  Soccer, Football, Stars

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• My general impression about people like Steve Gould and Carl Sagan and so on is that when they disappear as individuals and are no longer appearing on the stage and they are no longer writing, that their lifetime of acknowledgement by the general reading public is not very long... There were many people in the 19th century who were equally famous people who gave working man's lectures, supporters of Darwin, we as scholars know their names but the general public never heard of them.

  Richard Lewontin

  Reading, Writing, Men

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Some people say they're retired and it means they have time to do things they want to do. I have always had the privilege to engage in my hobbies as if they were work. And they are. So hobbies are work, but work that you want to do; they are play. Retirement? That sounds like you're going to passively walk into the sunset and disappear.

  Diane Keaton

  Retirement, Sunset, Mean

  "Diane Keaton on Woody Allen's feet, Al Pacino's nose" by Bob Minzesheimer, www.usatoday.com. April 28, 2014.

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• The thing that I see disappearing is just the love of old movies among kids. Everything's accessible, so you can get it, but when everything's accessible, that means you have to access it. And if you're not interested, you don't.

  Rob Zombie

  Mean, Kids, Old Movie

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Children, Thinking, Parent

  "Madonnarama!". Interview with Rich Cohen, www.vanityfair.com. May 2008.

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• We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity.

  Cornel West

  Space, Vanishing, Profundity

  "Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.

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• Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.

  Toni Morrison

  Racism, People, Gone

  Source: www.npr.org

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• As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.

  Justin Welby

  Support, Needs, Vulnerable

  "Archbishop of Canterbury attacks Government welfare reforms" by Edward Malnick, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 9, 2013.

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• Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.

  Neil Peart

  Prison, Reason, Chains

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• By 2030 over 2 billion jobs will disappear.

  Reid Hoffman

  Jobs, Billions

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• Remember the referendum on the Charlottetown constitutional accord? The more Canada's political and business elites threatened Canadians that the country would disappear into a black hole if the accord weren't passed, the more Canadians opposed it.

  Preston Manning

  Country, Political, Black

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• You are the light of the world. Shine, and darkness will disappear.

  Paulo Coelho

  Light, Shining, Darkness

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 22, 2011

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• A thousand times, when the train slowed or stopped, I thought of jumping off. I wanted to die in a ditch. I wanted to disappear. I wanted a different history and geography. In rhythm with the wheels I said I want I want I want I want I stayed on the train.

  Lewis Nordan

  Jumping, Different, Want

  Lewis Nordan (1992). “Music of the Swamp”, Algonquin Books

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• Every time a bit of information is erased, we know it doesn't disappear. It goes out into the environment. It may be horribly scrambled and confused, but it never really gets lost. It's just converted into a different form.

  Leonard Susskind

  Confused, Different, May

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• I put a bullet into the back of the crocodiles neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.

  Louis Leakey

  Water, Bullets, Necks

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• Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.

  Jason Epstein

  Technology, Bookstores, Inventory

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• To me, wrestling is therapy. No matter how bad my personal situation is, when I step into the ring, all my troubles disappear. My baggage stays in the back where it belongs.

  Eddie Guerrero

  Wrestling, Matter, Baggage

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• I disappear from the public eye and get rediscovered quite often.

  Burgess Meredith

  Eye, Public Eye

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• Bloggers now have no concept. They are given things; they put them on, take pictures, and then just disappear from sight. Who cares?

  Franca Sozzani

  Sight, Who Cares, Given

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• I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back to it, and your life becomes a bit of an interruption. I would love readers to feel like that.

  Bernard Beckett

  Book, Ideas, People

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• John Kerry suspended his campaign for five days this week in honor of President Reagan. And right now, he's ahead in the polls. How's that make him feel? Disappears for a week and he's up in the polls. What else can he do now but go into hiding.

  Jay Leno

  Honor, President, Campaigns

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• But even if we were to disappear, people would still be divided into people and Others. No matter how those Others were different.People can't get by without Others. Put two people on an uninhabited island, and you'll have a human being and an Other. And the difference is that an Other is always tormented by his differentness. It's easier for people. They know they're people, and that's what they ought to be. And they all have no choice but to be that way. All of them, forever.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Two, Differences, Islands

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• Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!

  Bryce Courtenay

  Ignorance, Racism, Brain

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