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"When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins."
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"The present offers fresh opportunities."
"Always you can find what you want, if you search enough times."
"Time given out through jobs can be channeled into something productive."
"Joblessness opens the door for greater opportunities."
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."
"Yeah," I said because it led to more options than 'no'."
"God has made the provision for every man on earth to be equally endowed with the currency time."
"The window of opportunity is always open, just you have to find it."
"Opportunities that always fail need change, else they will continue to keep failing till the future have its end."
"Don't only think of which job to get and live on. Think about which problem to solve and the jobs will keep suggesting themselves."
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"Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare."
"When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit."
"There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved."
"My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago."
"I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it."
"I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution."
"One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it."
"And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask."
"But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures."
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