"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die, because they are never going to be born. The number of people who could be here, in my place, out number the sand grains in the Sahara. If you think about all the different ways in which our genes could be permuted, you and I are quite grotesquely lucky to be here. The number of events that had to happen in order for you to exist, in order for me to exist... we are privileged to be alive and nd we should make the most of our time on this world."

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Source : Unweaving the Rainbow ch. 1 (1998)

Richard Dawkins

#Inspirational Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Order Quotes

“The answer to violence is even more democracy. Even more humanity.”

Source : "Norway's tragedy: The sad reality is that terrorists are sometimes homegrown". www.chron.com. July 28, 2011.
“The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.”
“All Americans must recognize that the face of terror is not the true faith - face of Islam. Islam is a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. It's a faith that has made brothers and sisters of every race. It's a faith based upon love, not hate.”
“It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.”
“Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here”
“You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.”
“The concept of a mental state is primarily the concept of a state of the person apt for bringing about a certain sort of behaviour.”

Source : David Malet Armstrong (1984). “D.M. Armstrong”, D Reidel Publishing Company
“I think optimism and humour are key words for me to make the films accessible, which means they can really travel and be seen by as many people as possible.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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