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"... We cannot get big grants to do field work anymore. ... Will the next generation of conservation biologists be nothing but a bunch of com…"
— Reed Noss
"As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back th…"
— Elizabeth Kostova
"The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life."
— Ralph Ellison
"We have a saying - I don’t know if it makes any sense in English - but where I come from we say ‘if the dog wouldn’t have gone for a shit, h…"
— Sebastian Vettel
"Frankly speaking, i don't understand Duckworth lewis.I just wait for the umpire's decision."
— MS Dhoni