"...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are."

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Source : David Christian (2011). “Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History”, p.2, Univ of California Press

David Christian

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“It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers.”

Source : WILLIAM STRUNK, JR. (1959). “THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE”
“Nothing is stronger than gentleness.”
“I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.”
“We should make politicians dress like race car drivers -- when they get money, make them wear the company logos on their suit.”
“Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over the state or change its policies. We want to render its laws unenforceable. We don't want to take over corporations and make them more 'socially responsible.' We want to build a counter-economy of open-source information, neighborhood garage manufacturing, permaculture, encrypted currency and mutual banks, leaving the corporations to die on the vine along with the state. We do not hope to reform the existing order. We intend to serve as its grave-diggers.”
“We gon' float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. AH! Rumble, young man rumble! AH!”
“Matchy-matchy is not for me. I don't want things to be too perfect. It's like pairing a matte top with a shiny skirt, so they play off each other. I want there to be relationships with texture and color, and sometimes it's more about the contrast that chimes.”

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