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Quotes About Dunbar

There was no established procedure for evasive action. All you needed was fear, and Yossarian had plenty of that, more fear than Orr or Hungry Joe, more fear even than Dunbar, who had resigned himself submissively to the idea that he must die someday
~ Joseph Heller
The Texan wanted everybody in the ward to be happy but Yossarian and Dunbar. He was really very sick.
~ Joseph Heller
Dunbar was lying motionless on his back again with his eyes staring up at the ceiling like a doll's. He was working hard at increasing his life span. He did it by cultivating boredom. Dunbar was working so hard at increasing his life span that Yossarian thought he was dead.
~ Joseph Heller
I try to get out to The Skelligs, and people will know The Skelligs from 'Star Wars' and so forth, but they really are the most incredible monastic settlement on this island off the south coast, the Kerry coast.
~ Adrian Dunbar
There are so many police series that we all end up playing a cop of one hue or another eventually.
~ Adrian Dunbar
It was a fabulous time, doing 'Hear My Song.'
~ Adrian Dunbar
British anthropologist Robin Dunbar theorized that a typical person can't easily have more than 150 people in his tribe. After 150 friends and fellow citizens, we can't keep track. It's too complicated.
~ Seth Godin
After the Dunbar alumni lost in the courts, the original Dunbar High School building was demolished. It was one of many triumphs of the ghetto culture across the country in the second half of the twentieth century, with consequences that spread far beyond educational institutions.
~ Thomas Sowell
But every effort to make this work in practice at any scale failed, largely because the social bonds that police such mutual aid tend to fray when the size of the group exceeds 150 (termed the "Dunbar number"—the empirically observed limit at which the members of a human community can maintain strong links with one another).
~ Chris Anderson
I went to Dunbar High School, recognized as the best high school of the segregated era. The education enabled students from Dunbar to attend the best colleges and universities in the country.
~ Eleanor Holmes Norton
We need ongoing indigenous products, like 'Blood,' to sell on the international market.
~ Adrian Dunbar
She also sent a messenger to Dunbar with orders to fortify the castle in her name.
~ John Guy