"In other words, science tells us that Adam and Eve are fictions. That Saint Paul or Uncle Tom Cobley and all thought otherwise is irrelevant. They were wrong."

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Source : "Adam and Eve Didn’t Exist. Get Over It!" by Michael Ruse, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

Michael Ruse

#Uncles Quotes #Saint Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Saturday was 90 minutes when people would judge whether we were the real deal”
“Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man”
“Painting can also be too earnest at times and that's a drag. You don't want to go in that direction either. It should be holistic. It should represent the whole of your personality, I guess, so if somebody is a sincere painter or an ironic painter, then they're just bullshitting the audience and presenting only an idealized version of themselves.”
“Before you can have great employees you have to put them in a position to create their own future.”
“All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.”

Source : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hyman George Rickover (1982). “Economics of Defense Policy: Adm. H.G. Rickover : Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session”
“Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't novels. You don't have 30 pages to slowly wrap somebody in. They're more like short stories or poems. If the first line hasn't grabbed them, you won't get to the second line. Once you've developed an audience, you may have some luxury and trust, so you don't have to knock 'em over the head with line one.”
“Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.”
“He laughs best whose laugh lasts.”

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