"Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea."

-- Tim O'Brien

#Nice Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Hindsight Quotes

“It's a war out there and either they're going to hurt you or you're going to hurt them. I just go out there and play with my heart.”
“Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.”
“The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.”
“Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual findings of paleontology. Following phyletic lines through time seemed to reveal only minimal gradual changes but no clear evidence for any change of a species into a different genus or for the gradual origin of an evolutionary novelty. Anything truly novel always seemed to appear quite abruptly in the fossil record.”

Source : Ernst Mayr (1991). “One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought”, p.138, Harvard University Press
“It is important to make sure that both persons wanting to marry have enough finances and are ready to commit”
“Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.”
“There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.”
“Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.”

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