"Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species."

-- Konrad Lorenz

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“A half-hour before bedtime, I remind myself that I now deserve to prepare myself for a good night's sleep. You can't focus on your work if you're sleep-deprived even if you have a fascinating job.”
“The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.”
“And in stories, endings matter.”
“I'd like to say to all my fans out there, thanks for the support. And to all my doubters, thank you very much because you guys have also pushed me.”
“I have written too much about lives - I feel I have lived for too long.”
“All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.”
“Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.”

Source : Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks
“In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.”

Source : "The ideas interview: Roberto Unger". Interview with John Sutherland, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2006.

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