Donald Griffin famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I have always found small mammals enough like ourselves to feel that I could understand what their lives would be like, and yet different enough to make it a sort of adventure and exploration to see what they were doing.
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Excessive caution can sometimes lead one as far astray as rash enthusiasm.
-- Donald Griffin
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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How come Aquaman can control whales? They’re mammals! Makes no sense.
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The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.
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Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.
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If we mammals don't get something to eat every day or two, our temperature drops, all our signs fall off, and we begin to starve. Living at biological red alert, it's not surprising how obsessed we are with food; I'm just amazed we don't pace and fret about it all the time.
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It's a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn't about rights. It's about responsibilities."--Mr Bill Berkowitz
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The hand is no different from what it creates.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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It's the presence of others who are smarter, kinder, wiser, and different from you that enables you to evolve. Those are the people to surround yourself with at all times.
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