"Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms."

-- Charles Darwin

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“We have only to see a few letters of the alphabet spelling our name in the sand to recognize at once the work of an intelligent agent. How much more likely, then is the existence of an intelligent Creator behind human DNA, the colossal biological database that contains no fewer than 3.5 billion "letters the longest "word" yet discovered?"”

Source : John C. Lennox (2011). “God and Stephen Hawking: Whose Design is it Anyway?”, p.74, Lion Books
“Could a dream kill a man? Could it strangle him where he sat sleeping?”

Source : Jedediah Berry (2009). “The Manual of Detection: A Novel”, p.158, Penguin
“Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil.”
“I'm a very private person, and you have a lot of people looking into your personal life, away from football. That's the one thing that I don't like, but I always remember how lucky we are that we're playing football.”

Source : "Cult heroes: Helen Reddy, the 'queen of housewife pop' with a secret dark side" by Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2016.
“Human beings any one of us, and our species as a whole are not all-important, not at the center of the world. That is the one essential piece of information, the one great secret, offered by any encounter with the woods or the mountains or the ocean or any wilderness or chunk of nature or patch of night sky.”
“Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.”
“If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.”
“My No. 1 goal in racing was never to be the most popular driver.”

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