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Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be. I wouldn't want to have my guts ripped out by a lion. I'd much rather die in a slaughterhouse, if it was done right.

— Temple Grandin Temple Grandin (2010)

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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.

(About the workplace) Tyrants who get into power make life miserable for everyone.

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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