"All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long been placed, and hence through the influence of the predominant use or permanent disuse of any organ; all these are preserved by reproduction to the new individuals which arise, provided that the acquired modifications are common to both sexes, or at least to the individuals which produce the young."

-- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

#Sex Quotes #Loss Quotes #Race Quotes

“The structures in Europe in a globalising economy need to be modernised, need to be more integrated, need to be stronger.”
“Someday we will dare to trade good for true”
“Music is endless and even though I've heard a whole bunch of music from so many different places and fallen in love countless times with all kinds of different music.There's still something about it,I guess it's called Freedom.”
“I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.”
“My father taught me how to draw horses - for this I shall be eternally grateful.”
“Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad, the holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity. It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness”

Source : Richard Wright (2010). “American Hunger”, p.15, Harper Collins
“When no one else signs me.”
“The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.”

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