"The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice."

-- George Eliot

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“In the beginning, there were bacteria.... [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through a continuous chain of ancestor-descendant pairs. This assumption looks good because all living organisms share biochemical traits. It is conceivable, of course, that life originated more than once on the early earth but that all except one life form died out early, leaving a single lineage as the ancestor of life as we know it. If this did happen, it was the first important species extinction.”
“Iâ€™m a bowling pin, even when I fall Iâ€™ll always stand back up.”
“The risk pertinent to a particular attempt (and to its evaluation as an attempt of its sort) is the risk that the agent will fail to attain the end constitutive of that attempt. This risk of failure is coordinate with how likely or unlikely it may be that the agent will then succeed.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Humans can be noble. The question is: Will we put forth what is necessary?”
“The greatness of God is the true rebuke to the littleness of men. The greatness of Christ is the true rebuke to the littleness of Christians.”

Source : Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1882). “Sermons on Special Occasions: Preached in Westminster Abbey”
“If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.”

Source : "The crown of a life". Book by Isa Blagden, 1869.
“It's interesting to me that killing damages the image of God when it's done by a person, but it doesn't damage it when it's done by the state.”

Source : "Religious Reflections on the Death Penalty". Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life in Washington, D.C., www.pewforum.org. June 5, 2001.
“Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.”

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