"America's got a Darwin problem - and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, fewer than 40% of Americans are willing to say that they 'believe in evolution.'"

-- Kenneth R. Miller

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“Some people you can afford to spend a few minutes with, but not a few hours.”
“We havent done action movies in Germany. We had some attempts in the 90s, but they failed.”
“THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.”
“His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.”
“If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the minds of Western intellectuals easily filled by secular superstition. There is no other explanation for the credulity with which scientists, accustomed to evaluating evidence, and writers, whose whole function was to study and criticize society, accepted the crudest Stalinist propaganda at its face value. They needed to believe; they wanted to be duped.”
“The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.”

Source : "Trump's brilliant choice of McMaster" by Peter Bergen, www.cnn.com. February 21, 2017.
“But giving up's easy. You know what's hard? To believe in your own worth, to know you've got something special in you even if nobody else can see it. Even when you can't.”
“I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.”

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