"Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of the first humans, but there was nothing inevitable about it."

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Source : "The Origin of Humankind". Book by Richard Leakey, 1994.

Richard Leakey

#Goal Quotes #Long Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I get in my golf cart with my dogs, I have five dogs.”
“I do love to shop. But I'm a social shopper. I like to do it while hanging out with my friends. Some of them hate shopping because they treat it like something you have to plan, like a grocery list. But if I'm out and I pass a store, I just pop in.”
“I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.”
“Hell is full of musical amateurs.”
“Life is hard already. Why make it harder?”
“If Australia is attacked, it's no longer terrorism. We have invaded Iraq. Iraq, or its new allies, have every right to attack back.”
“Somebody somewhere is waiting on you to become what you were destined to be. Keep growing forward!”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 13, 2017
“Each of us has the choice to attend the church we want to, or none at all. Separation of church and state allows for religions to have their own set of rules as to whom they will accept and who they won't, and the practices they support and the ones they don't. They will continue to be able to do so.”

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