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Bad things always happen when an animal is overselected for any single trait. Nature will give you a nasty surprise. (p217)

— Temple Grandin Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals (2009)

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The meaning of life is if something that you did made something better.

If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave.

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They may ask why nature or God created such horrible conditions as autism, manic depression, and schizophrenia. However, if the genes that caused these conditions were eliminated there might be a terrible price to pay.

I don't like radical anything; left or right. I have a radical dislike of radicals.

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