Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.
("Jurassic Park")
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And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.Michael Crichton
And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.
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All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.
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You've never heard of Chaos theory? Non-linear equations? Strange attractors? Ms. Sattler, I refuse to believe you're not familiar with the concept of attraction.
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You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.
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