"We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are."

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Source : Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History”, p.431, W. W. Norton & Company

Stephen Jay Gould

#Earth Quotes #May Quotes #Roles Quotes

“I am here to fix the problem with yer pheaun.”
“Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.”
“Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they must be physically segregated every moment of the day and night.”
“I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.”
“You think I'm a pretty good race car driver? Wait until you see my brother. He's the best driver in the family.”
“I think what's really interesting and useful about this question is that ultimately all art is a type of self-portraiture. And so in the act of identifying yourself, you're using others to get to that point. And so you're parsing out different aspects of different people in the world. You're choosing not only from America but increasingly globally different aspects of what's out there.”
“There was a way that I approached that with the art department and the background players, which was that I didn't want people to have stepped out of a catalogue. This is not a world of perfect beauty. I wanted it to be the real world of the 1960s. I know that some women walked out of the house without lipstick.”
“Don't be fooled by your emptiness, there's so much more room for happiness.”

Source : Song: Room for Happiness

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