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| 6b19cf8 | However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or complain that it is dull or barren or (like a child) boring, couldn't this be seen as a callous insult to those unborn trillions who will never even be offered life in the first place? | religion science life | Richard Dawkins | |
| 0255b06 | there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| afef8b0 | Evolution sceptic: Professor Haldane, even given the billions of years that you say were available for evolution, I simply cannot believe it is possible to go from a single cell to a complicated human body, with its trillions of cells organized into bones and muscles and nerves, a heart that pumps without ceasing for decades, miles and miles of blood vessels and kidney tubules, and a brain capable of thinking and talking and feeling. JBS: B.. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 94669cf | I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene. | memetics | Richard Dawkins | |
| 913b9fa | byd bh khwdkh amwkht khh chgwnh byndyshd, nh ynkhh chh byndyshd. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| b170a15 | I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an expla nation even if we still have a long way to go before we find it, is a more beautiful, more wonderful place than a universe tricked out with capricious, ad hoc magic. | reason | Richard Dawkins | |
| df280fb | We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. 'Mimeme' comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like 'gene'. I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme. If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be thought of as being related to 'memory', or to the French word meme. It should be prono.. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 80b4e6d | I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist when considering Zeus, Apollo, Amon Ra, Mithras, Baal, Thor, Wotan, the Golden Calf and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I just go one god further. | religion god flying-spaghetti-monster skepticism theology | Richard Dawkins | |
| 20c3d1d | There is bound to be variation in the population of males in their predisposition to be faithful husbands. If females could recognize such qualities in advance, they could benefit themselves by choosing males possessing them. One way for a female to do this is to play hard to get for a long time, to be coy. Any male who is not patient enough to wait until the female eventually consents to copulate is not likely to be a good bet as a faithfu.. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| cbe5798 | Shouldn't children be taught critical, sceptical thinking from an early age? Shouldn't we all be taught to doubt, to weigh up plausibility, to demand evidence? | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 09c428f | Your first love is important. It's part of your story. The story you'll tell yourself, the one you'll tell about yourself, for the rest of your life. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 38995a4 | Romans 8:28 is one of the most comforting texts in all of Scripture. It assures the believer that all "tragedies" are ultimately blessings. It does not declare that all things that happen are good in themselves but that in all the thing that happen to us God is working in and through them for our good. This is also fimrly grounded in His eternal purpose for His people." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 269fcb6 | The worship to which we are called in our renewed state is far too important to be left to personal preferences, to whims, or to marketing strategies. It is the pleasing of God that is at the heart of worship. Therefore, our worship must be informed at every point by the Word of God as we seek God's own instructions for worship that is pleasing to Him. | worship | R.C. Sproul | |
| dd8ca57 | The cliche is that misery loves company. Another is that there is fellowship among thieves. But thieves do not seek the consoling presence of the fellowship of police officers. Sinful misery does not love the company of purity. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 59d3c51 | Ronald Reagan once quipped, "I've noticed all those in favor of abortion are already born." Indeed, all pro-abortionists would become pro-life immediately if they found themselves back in the womb." -- | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 0f14d97 | Most folks here got rules 'bout trespassing. Warning shot's fired right close to the head. Get they's attention. Next shot gets a lot more personal. Now I'm too old to waste time firing a warning shot..... | David Baldacci | ||
| 129fd9a | It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between. | David Baldacci | ||
| 89bc228 | You learn a lot about a person when she saves your life, - Mecho | David Baldacci | ||
| 41e9777 | engaged," he said bitterly. "Everybody's engaged. Everybody in a small town is engaged or married or in trouble. There's nothing else to do in a small town. You go to school. You start walking home with a girl-- maybe for no other reason than that she lives out your way. You grow up. She invites you to parties at her home. You go to other parties-- eople ask you to bring her along; you're expected to take her home. Soon no one else takes he.. | Betty Smith | ||
| a1513c5 | You took a walk on a Sunday afternoon and came to a nice neighborhood, very refined. You saw a small one of these trees through the iron gate leading to someone's yard and you knew that soon that section of Brooklyn would get to be a tenement district. The tree knew. It came there first. Afterwards, poor foreigners seeped in and the quiet old brownstone houses were hacked up into flats, feather beds were pushed out on the window sills to ai.. | Betty Smith | ||
| 115e4b0 | She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it | describing-labor-pains | Betty Smith | |
| a75dca3 | Francie looked at her legs. They were long, slender, and exquisitely molded. She wore the sheerest of flawless silk stockings, and expensively made high-heeled pumps shod her beautifully arched feet. "Beautiful legs, then, is the secret of being a mistriss," concluded Francie. She looked down at her own long thin legs. "I'll never make it, I guess." Sighing , she resigned herself to a sinless life." | Betty Smith | ||
| 96d03e3 | You married him. There was something about him that caught your heart. Hang on to that and forget the rest. | Betty Smith | ||
| c7c08b0 | Oh, magic hour when a child first knows it can read printed words! For quite a while, Francie had been spelling out letters, sounding them and then putting the sounds together to mean a word. But, one day, she looked at a page and the word "mouse" had instantaneous meaning. She looked at the word, and a picture of a gray mouse scampered through her mind. She looked further and when she saw "horse," she heard him pawing the ground and saw t.. | Betty Smith | ||
| 3110af0 | Martha: ... I cry allllll the time; but deep inside, so no one can see me. I cry all the time. And Georgie cries all the time, too. We both cry all the time, and then what we do, we cry, and we take our tears, and we put 'em in the ice box, in the goddamn ice trays until they're all frozen and then... we put them... in our... drinks. | Edward Albee | ||
| 8598f52 | Everything becomes... too late, finally. You know it's going on... up on the hill; you can see the dust, and hear the cries, and the steel... but you wait; and time happens. When you do go, sword, shield... finally... there's nothing there... save rust; bones; and the wind. | Edward Albee | ||
| 724181f | A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation. | generation creator artist | Gertrude Stein | |
| c1d54b9 | I love my love with a b because she is peculiar. | poetry love peculiar narration | Gertrude Stein | |
| daf6321 | One cannot always marry the person one loves... | love kate-mosse sepulchre | Kate Mosse | |
| c985a1c | single free choice you ever undertake arises out of one of the only two possible thoughts there are: a thought of love or a thought of fear. Fear is the energy which contracts, closes down, draws in, runs, hides, hoards, harms. Love is the energy which expands, opens up, sends out, stays, reveals, shares, heals. Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked. Fear clings to and clutches all that we have, love gives all tha.. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| f577033 | I tell you this: Compassion never ends, love never stops, patience never runs out in God's World. Only in the world of man is goodness limited. In My World, goodness is endless. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| b35d660 | I wrote my way out. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| bba2b22 | I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| dcd52d7 | You said, 'Why do I frighten you?' Frighten me? Yes you do frighten me. You act as though we will be together for ever. You act as though there is infinite pleasure and time without end. How can I know that? My experience has been that time always ends. In theory you are right, the quantum physicists are right, the romantics and the religious are right. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| de0d990 | It seems obvious, doesn't it, that someone who is ignored and overlooked will expand to the point where they have to be noticed, even if the noticing is fear and disgust. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 782630c | What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of intestines loaded with stars? | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 55c56b5 | My needlework teacher suffered from a problem of vision. She recognised things according to expectation and environment. If you were in a particular place, you expected to see particular things. Sheep and hills, sea and fish; if there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs. Jones and talk about fishcakes. But most likely, she's do what most people do when confronted with something they don't under.. | unexpected-things oranges-are-not-the-only-fruit jeanette-winterson | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 7b61b1c | The only selfish life is a timid one. | jeanette winterson | ||
| 9138dec | Every new beginning prompts a return. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 2164ba2 | I read in a book that the stars can take you anywhere. I've never wanted to be an astronaut because of the helmets. If I were up there on the moon, or by the Milky Way, I'd want to feel the stars round my head. I'd want my whole body to feel the space, the empty space and points of light. That's how dancers must feel, dancers and acrobats, just for a second, that freedom. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| d2baedd | In therapy, the therapist acts as a container for what we daren't let out, because it is so scary, or what lets itself out every so often, and lays waste to our lives. | therapy | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 9fa17df | When I was born I became the visible corner of a folded map. The map has more than one route. More than one destination. The map that is the unfolding self is not exactly leading anywhere. The arrow that says YOU ARE HERE is your first coordinate. There is a lot that you can't change when you are a kid. But you can pack for the journey . . . | pursuit-of-happiness map life-journey | Jeanette Winterson | |
| f2a2a0a | Nothing dreamed is ever lost, and nothing lost forever. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 0eeb45d | he is the kind of man who breakes biscuits in two and saves the other half for later | Joanne Harris |