"We're hard-wired by 200,000 years of evolution to be sensitive to the idea that someone might be watching us. They might be predators, after all. An uneasy feeling is perfectly natural if you suspect that someone has you in their ocular sights, whether it's a ghost or just some guy at the bus stop."

-- Seth Shostak

#Sight Quotes #Years Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“A star is a person who shines so brightly,who gives their gifts so fully,who loves so completely that everyone is drawn by the light of this star to find the way home.”
“The investigation of this problem - How is spontaneous order possible? - is sometimes referred to as the 'Hayek programme'.”

Source : Jon Elster (1989). “The Cement of Society: A Survey of Social Order”, p.250, Cambridge University Press
“Africa is an extraordinary opportunity at the moment”
“When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.”
“I don't use the word lightly, in fact, I don't use it at all, but Ben Marcus is a genius, one of the most daring, funny, morally engaged and brilliant writers, someone whose work truly makes a difference in the world. His prose is, for me, awareness objectified-he makes the word new and thus the world.”
“Failures, repeated failures, are sign-posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something (and it works).”
“Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.”
“A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.”

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