"The alternative to extinction is stagnation, and stagnation is seldom a good thing."

-- Ian Tattersall

#Alternatives Quotes #Extinction Quotes #Good Things Quotes

“Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.”

Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.77, Rowman & Littlefield
“If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the government?”
“In turn, more physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers are severely limiting their practices, moving to other states, or simply not providing care.”
“The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person.”
“Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.”
“Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral judgments using the accumulated knowledge of the ages, have the right to take the lives of other sentient organisms, particularly when we are not forced to do so by hunger or dietary need, but rather do so for the somewhat frivolous reason that we like the taste of meat? In essence, should we know better?”
“Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.”
“But if itâ€™s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that, at the end of the day, they will give it back in an unmutilated condition? Fat chance!”

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