"For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable and so creative eventually emerged. Today we stand with the brains of hunter-gatherers in our heads, looking out on a modern world made comfortable for some by the fruits of human inventiveness, and made miserable for others by the scandal of deprivation in the midst of plenty."

-- Richard Leakey

#Years Quotes #Creative Quotes #Brain Quotes

“I don't want fear or cancer to define me, but it's always in the back of your mind.”

Source : "Ethan Zohn's Cancer Returns" by Julie Jordan, people.com. November 02, 2011.
“A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.”

Source : The Godfather ch. 1 (1969). This line does not appear in the movie version of The Godfather.
“Religious faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is instead, an inner spiritual strength which enables them to face those storms with hope and serenity.”

Source : Sam J. Ervin Jr. (2014). “Humor of a Country Lawyer”, p.88, UNC Press Books
“Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?”
“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
“I don't think any child could really be happy between five and eight away from their parents”
“Sarah Palin has decided not to run for President and go straight to the quitting part.”
“Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.”

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