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		Our task now is to resynthesize biology; put the organism back into its environment; connect it again to its evolutionary past; and let us feel that complex flow that is organism, evolution, and environment united. The time has come for biology to enter the nonlinear world.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carl Woese 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Napoleon Bonaparte 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yuna 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samantha Shannon 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sai Baba 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Venus Williams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries ahead of us in abolishing slavery and in extending full rights of citizenship to everyone, regardless of race. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Madison Smartt Bell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		I think when you sign a recording deal, you think, 'I'm going to put out a song and have a hit right away. I'll be a giant superstar. I can take over the world now.' But I put out a song, and it did OK. It wasn't like leaps and bounds. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Brett Eldredge 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The ICRC did not see Nazi Germany for what it was. Instead, the organization maintained the illusion that the Third Reich was a 'regular partner,' a state that occasionally violates laws, not unlike any army during World War II, occasionally using illegal means and methods of warfare. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Peter Maurer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's such a strong community element in country - it's like a family. So I don't want to do anything that can come off, even if I'm not intentionally doing it, as giving the perception that I'm trying to abandon that family. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Hunt 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ann Rule 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		[Wave of bestselling conservative commentators] it's kind of like reading The Power Of Positive Thinking, or any other advice or how-to book. All they do is reassure people of their basic opinions, and then they can continue to act like they've always acted. I'd say it's time to move on to something else, but I don't know what it would be. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				P. J. O'Rourke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Our task now is to resynthesize biology; put the organism back into its environment; connect it again to its evolutionary past; and let us feel that complex flow that is organism, evolution, and environment united. The time has come for biology to enter the nonlinear world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carl Woese