We owe them [animals] a decent life and a decent death, and their lives should be as low-stress … - Temple Grandin

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If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.

Temple Grandin

We owe them [animals] a decent life and a decent death, and their lives should be as low-stress as possible. That's my job. I wish animals could have more than just a low-stress life and a quick, painless death. I wish animals could have a good life, too, with something useful to do. People were animals, too, once, and when we turned into human beings we gave something up. Being close to animals brings some of it back.

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Autism's an important part of who I am, but I'm a college professor and an animal scientist first. And I wouldn't want to change 'cause I like the logical way I think.

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There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers. . . when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.

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