"And the beauty of the anthropic principle is that it tells us, against all intuition, that a chemical model need only predict that life will arise on one planet in a billion billion to give us a good and entirely satisfying explanation for the presence of life here."

-- Richard Dawkins

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“I knew what the sanctified life was not. Not a life filled with more rituals, more scrupulously observed. Not more praying. Not becoming a better person, being more charitable, more concerned with everyone else's pains. Sanctifying had something to do with a sense of constant wonder - feeling gratitude and finding significance everywhere, in every action, relationship and object.”
“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”
“Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.”

Source : Margaret Laurence (1993). “A Jest of God”, p.66, University of Chicago Press
“You don't disrupt genius at work.”

Source : "Dylan O’Brien Talks THE FIRST TIME, TEEN WOLF Season 3, Shawn Levy's THE INTERNSHIP, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 17, 2012.
“I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth is not expected or required. You may easily disguise it, so that it is only recognized much later, when the story and the characters have faded into darkness.”
“In our search for more, we have blinded ourselves to our personal responsibility for challenging these absurdities. A resource-based society considers us all equal shareholders of Earth. We are responsible both for the planet and for our relationship with each other.”
“A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.”
“Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy! Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!”

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