Edward Humes famous quotes

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  • But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.

  • Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.

  • There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

  • There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

  • The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.

  • It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.

  • My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.

  • We can truly see that consciousness is operating creatively even in biology, even in the evolution of species.

  • As we go from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to Mitt Romney, I now understand why the Republicans don't believe in evolution.

  • It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism,