Stephen Jay Gould Quotes
When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
Quotes to Explore
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
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That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.
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We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
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Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.
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To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre, this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.
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If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
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You would think that pot had some kind of power; I mean come on, it’s a plant, not a reason for living. Controlled by a plant, how hilarious. A plant! A fucking plant!
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Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.
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'No Burden' is not necessarily ferocious.
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Much like dystopian and post-apocalyptic books are a way to explore the worst-case scenarios lurking around the corner, fantasy can serve as a wonderful tool for showing kids that they have an inherent power in them to create change, both in themselves and in their community.
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Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in this chamber, it is the conversation behind the scenes that cements and defines our relationships.
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I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
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The reality is that people know my character, and they know my service.
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A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.
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I don't think that evolution is supremely important because it is my specialty; it is my specialty because I think it is supremely important.
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Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the most valuable plants of every description.
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Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious "right" a revolution was fought.
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I set for myself only small goals, goals that are not that far away.
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The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.
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When, from the top of any high hill, one looks round the country, and sees the multitude of regularly distributed spires, one not only ceases to wonder that order and religion are maintained, but one is astonished that any such thing as disaffection or irreligion should prevail.
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When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
