"The living world is not a single array... connected by unbroken series of intergrades."

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Source : Theodosius Grigorievich Dobzhansky (1951). “Genetics and the origin of species”

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#World Quotes #Unbroken Quotes #Connected Quotes

“Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning of the human race stories have been used - by priests, by bards, by medicine men - as magic instruments of healing, of teaching, as a means of helping people come to terms with the fact that they continually have to face insoluble problems and unbearable realities.”
“When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.”
“Give your child a spanking once a day. If you don't know why, he does.”

Source : Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.31, Open Road Media
“The First World War began because one man was shot. The Second World War began because of a mad German dictator. Who knows how a third could start. There are also people who think that the war has been going for a long time.”
“The smell of the sea swept over the wall and in through the empty window-hole, wide and wild with a million intoxicating secrets. I don't trust that smell. It hooks us somewhere deeper than reason or civilization, in the fragments of our cells that rocked in oceans before we had minds, and it pulls till we follow mindlessly as rutting animals....It lures us to leap off high cliffs, fling ourselves on towering waves, leaves behind everyone we love and face into thousands of miles of open water for the sake of what might be on the far shore.”
“Look around less, imagine more.”
“Today, I am blessed to be living a dream. And yet, if it all went away tomorrow, I know I would still have peace.”

Source : "Tim Howard Credits Christian Faith For Giving Him The ‘Gift Of Athleticism’". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2014.
“I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.”

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