"Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist."

-- Orson Scott Card

#Sacrifice Quotes #Race Quotes #Might Quotes

“America is harmless as an enemy but treacherous as a friend.”
“Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.”

Source : "Taanis Gedanken". Alle Verk, xii. 77, 1896.
“Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.”
“The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.”
“I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.”
“The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.”
“Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 18, 2011
“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.”

Source : "The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night". Book by John Payne, Terminal Essay: Social Conditions, fn. 13., 1885.

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