"There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so."

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Source : James D. Watson (2009). “Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science”, p.326, Vintage

James D. Watson

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“Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.”

Source : FaceBook post by Oscar de la Renta from Oct 11, 2010
“I tell young people to reach for the stars. And I can't think of a greater high than you could possibly get than by inventing something.”
“Poetry, like love, is something we never truly say goodbye to.”
“You [God] are a fire that takes away the coldness, illuminates the mind with its light, and causes me to know your truth and I know that you are beauty and wisdom itself. The food of angels, you give yourself to man in this fire of your love”
“I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.”
“Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police.”

Source : "Investigator details charges". "NBC News Investigates", www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2004.
“How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”
“As far as I was concerned, we'd come to a draw: I hadn't wanted to come, and she didn't want me to leave. We were even. But I knew my mother wouldn't see it that way. Lately, we didn't seem to see anything the same.”

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