Terry Pratchett
Author
"You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons."
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Dinosaurs
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
"Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?"
Ray Bradbury
Author
"I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room."
Homer
Poet
"I've gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
"The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?"
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"Dinosaurs may be extinct from the face of the planet, but they are alive and well in our imaginations."
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"I've always loved dinosaurs."
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"As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It's one of those tragedies that I've forgotten what dinosaurs are cool."
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"The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others."
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"I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It was me and a handful of tyrannosaurs. We'd be writing blog entries like, 'The tyrannosaurus is getting grumpy.'"
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"Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program."
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"Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct."
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"I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities."
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"Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future is for you to take control of that future."
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"The dinosaurs are remember only by their bones. What will we be remembered for with humanity?"
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"Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs."
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"Frankly, reviews aremostly for peoplewho still read.Like most of the written word, it isgoing the way of the dinosaur."
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"Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled."
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"You know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue."
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"Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often takes quite a while to come down."
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