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Activists burn a cartoonist in effigy while protesting the republication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, in Karachi on February 15, 2008. (Athar Hussein / Reuters)

“I don’t think that a cartoon is worth a single human life. But the dilemma for every one of us is, what do you do when other people think that way?” —Flemming Rose, who published cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in 2006 that sparked protests in which people died.

“The culture of discipline and punishment … leaves little room for error when one is black and female,” —Monique W. Morris, who wrote a book on the criminalization of black girls in schools.

“Everywhere you go in Miami, you’re confronted with someone who will speak to you in Spanish. … It’s important to have a workforce that can accommodate and work with the Spanish-speaking community,” —Susan Martin, who teaches at a dual-language elementary school.

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“If we had a power failure that shut off all the gas pumps for a month, the Amish would probably survive just fine. It isn’t a matter of training them for that eventuality, it’s that’s the way they live,” —Eugene Spafford, a computer-science professor.

“The joke among my friends is that you can be gay … just so long as you don’t act gay, or say gay things, or do anything to show you’re gay,” —Dan Heiland, a bisexual student at a Christian college.

“‘Well I was spanked, and look at me.’ And I want to say, ‘Yeah, look at you,’” —Robert Block, a pediatrician who opposes spanking, on what parents often tell him.

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“There’s no VCR tape that’s an exact record of your life that’s ever stored. [Memory’s] more like working with a document in Microsoft Word without track changes on. You open the document, edit it, and then stored it in the edited form. So when you bring it back to rework it, you don’t have the original anymore,”—Kevin Ochsner, a social psychologist

“So you live as much as you can live on your own, and when you have to go out, you just go out,”—Ahmed Abdirahman, a medical counselor, on the general philosophy in Somalia around death

“You could listen to a bunch of people talk about food that rap well, but they don’t know shit. I do both,”—Action Bronson, a rapper and former chef

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“The reason Where’s Waldo is really hard is everything is extremely heterogeneous. There isn’t anything that one could certainly ignore,”—Corbin Cunningham, who studies cognitive and neural mechanisms of attention

“It’s been Americanized, because most Americans aren’t comfortable with Chinese food until it’s turned into essentially an American version and served in an American setting,”—Andrew Coe, who wrote a book on the history of Chinese food in the United States

“Corruption and fraud are things going on in the social environment all the time, and it’s plausible that it shapes people’s psychology, what they can get away with. ‘It’s okay! Everybody does it around here,’”—Simon Gächter, an economist who studies decision-making

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“[My professor is] the only one so far who’s made me like math. Where I was before, everything was just overwhelming. He goes step by step. He’ll tell you, ‘You can do this,’”—Donna Davis, a student in Robert Puhak’s remedial math class

“Sexual fantasy obeys its own set of rules that have nothing to do with propriety, common sense, or even the physical laws of the universe,”—Ogi Ogas, a neuroscientist, on porn

“In Ghana, you’re not allowed to point with your left hand, because the left hand is reserved for dirty things,”—Daniel Casasanto, a psychologist who studies left- and right-handed biases

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“Marry a cactus,”—the advice Phoebe Danziger got for balancing family life with her medical career

“Has anyone before come out to your house and asked why your child isn’t coming to school? Nine out of 10 times the answer is no,”—Lisa Harper, a parent specialist

“Sometimes my brain accounts for the fact that I don’t hear. Like if I stomp my foot with my implants off, then my brain kind of makes a sound for it,”—Jessica Jafet’s son, who received a cochlear implant as a baby

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“We’re gonna do a walk-out on Mr. Trumpster,” —William Temple (pictured above), a Tea Party activist, on his plans to disrupt a speech by Donald Trump

“After infection, they become a viral factory,” —Guo-Li Ming, a neurology professor, on brain stem cells infected with the Zika virus.

“What I’d want to say to my daughters? I’d want to tell them, ‘Buzz off,’” —the mother of two daughters in their fifties, on getting too much help from her kids.

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“I would call it divide and survive. No one is going to be conquering,” —Stuart Stevens, a Republican strategist, on the party’s best chance to beat Donald Trump.

“There are two bunkbeds, and at night they put down a piece of foam on the floor for the third person, whose head is about a foot from the toilet,”—David Rudovsky, a civil-rights attorney, on crowded Philadelphia jail cells.

“This is the first evidence that there are seeds of a tumor’s own destruction nestling in the tumor itself,” —Charles Swanton, a cancer researcher

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“We’ve had women who called us and said, ‘Can you tell us how to do my own abortion with medication in my cabinet or cleaning supplies I have under my sink?’”—Amy Hagstrom Miller, CEO of an abortion clinic in Texas.

“They call the buses, they do the announcements, they water the plants. They truly think I just come in and unlock the doors,” —Kimberly Cummins, an elementary-school principal, on her students.

“Employees behave more like volunteers now. You have to give them work experiences that are enjoyable in order for them to really stick.” —Josh Bersin, the founder of an HR-research company.

“For the first three months, it was ‘Oh, bullshit, he’s a joke,’ … and now they’re throwing shit in the air in total panic, screaming, running for the hills. I was ‘never Trump’ before it was cool,”—Rick Wilson, a Republican media strategist.

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“Years from now, when everyone is saying ‘meatmobile,’ I will be KING,” —Ed Yong, an Atlantic staff writer, on what people in the future will call cars driven by humans.

“The parks aren’t interested in making really good maps. The parks make what we call information graphics,” —Tim Harrison, who makes maps of California’s state parks.

“The GRE is like taking a cancer test that was invented in the 1940s.” —Robert J. Sternberg, who studies intelligence and college admissions, on the test required for most U.S. graduate programs.

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U.S. President Barack Obama looks in an unexpected place. (Jim Young / Reuters)

“If you want to see something really bizarre, you have to look where you didn’t know to look in the first place,” —Didier Raoult, who studies viruses.

“I have met many Democrats that are convinced that Republicans are trying to keep their party from voting, and I’ve met many Republicans that are convinced that Democrats are cheating, and it’s really hard to convince either side otherwise,” —Kim Wyman, an elections official in Washington state, on the partisan divide over automatic voter registration.

“We should be in the business of laying out what the evidence is about a given topic … what constitutes a strong recommendation, what constitutes a moderate recommendation, and what constitutes a weak recommendation. And what constitutes, like, ‘Psh, I don’t know,’” —Steven Hatch, a medicine professor, on how doctors should advise patients.

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“You say short film, and people think dark rooms in Polish film festivals where there are dogs being chased through forests,” —Fabien Riggall, founder of a short film production company.

“So much can go wrong on the day of a placement test. You can have a stomachache and all of a sudden you’re on a remedial track for your first year of college,” —Michelle Asha Cooper, head of a nonprofit that promotes students’ success in higher education.

“We have obstruction on steroids,” —Harry Reid, U.S. Senate minority leader, on Republican senators’ refusal to consider a Supreme Court nominee from President Obama.

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