"In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

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Source : Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.109, Broadway Books

Joel Garreau

#Race Quotes #Becoming Quotes #Evolution Quotes

“An eye for an eye....we are all blind”
“Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.”
“Many people have asked me why there are three pedals in these grand pianos. Well the pedal in the middle is there to separate the two other pedals.”
“My parents just neglected me, I wasn't abused or anything.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Obama wants to take the individual small business tax to 44 percent, and the corporate rate - he says - down to 28 percent or whatever. But that really damages the small businesses. And it doesn't make us competitive. You got to take them both down to 20, because state and local corporate taxes are 5 percent.”
“Comfort the troubled, and trouble the comfortable.”
“Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.”

Source : Lady Murasaki, Murasaki Shikibu, Arthur Waley (2000). “The Tale of Genji”, p.7, Courier Corporation
“The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence.”

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