National Geographic Magazine: Prehistoric "Panda" Found in Spain—Giant Panda Has European Roots? | Small tree-climber is oldest known panda relative.
With only teeth to go on, scientists have reportedly identified a giant panda ancestor: A. beatrix. // Illustration courtesy José Antonio Peñas, SINC
Christine Dell’Amore
for National Geographic News
Published May 14, 2012A prehistoric relative of the giant panda has been discovered in…
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Those who constantly surround themselves in the pessimism this world has to offer leave no room for enlightenment, no room for change, and at the bottom of it all is pure fear for what you don’t understand. For me, to blame someone for never having both the pleasure and misfortune of this experience would be ignorance at it’s finest. Forgive and let let live says the horoscope. Never forget, not I says the black guy. ;)
Because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!
— On The Road by Jack Kerouac (via Confuzzzled)
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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.
— Piscine Molitor Patel, Life of Pi, Yann Martel (via nubivagantmusings)
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There are plenty of others willing to call you a failure. A fool. A loser. A hopeless souse! Don’t you ever say it of yourself. You send out the wrong signal. That is what people pick up. Do you understand? If you care about something fight for it. You hit a wall, push through it. There’s something you need to know about failure, Tintin: You can never let it defeat you.
— Captain Haddock, The Adventures of Tintin
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Books are doors that lead you into the street. With them you learn, educate yourself, travel, dream, imagine, live other lives and multiply yours by one thousand.
— Arturo Perez-Reverte, La Reina del Sur
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Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it’s all a male fantasy: that you’re strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren’t catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you’re unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.
— Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride (via helplesslyamazed)
TRUF
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