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"South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century."
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"I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime."

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"High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless."

"It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions."

"You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero."
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"The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing."
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"Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing."

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"The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose."

"I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene."

"Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance."

"I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's 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."

"When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago."
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