"Like it or not, war is distinctively human. Apart from the raiding behavior of chimpanzees and the so-called wars prosecuted by certain species of ant, there is nothing in nature that comes anywhere near approximating it."
– David Livingstone Smith, The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
