"Mr. Darwin's hypothesis is not, so far as I am aware, inconsistent with any known biological fact; on the contrary, if admitted, the facts of Development, of Comparative Anatomy, of Geographical Distribution, and of Palaeontology, become connected together, and exhibit a meaning such as they never possessed before; and I, for one, am fully convinced that if not precisely true, that hypothesis is as near an approximation to the truth as, for example, the Copernican hypothesis was to the true theory of the planetary motions."

-- Thomas Huxley

#Together Quotes #Development Quotes #Facts Quotes

“If you're dedicated to something and you put the time in, why should anyone have an opinion on it? Halif of the people who comment about women's boxing don't even watch it.”
“No one has a right to hoard things which he cannot use.”
“In the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception.”

Source : Nouriel Roubini, Stephen Mihm (2010). “Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance”, p.17, Penguin
“If you want to condemn yourself for the mistakes you've made, let's be fair, that means you've got to congratulate yourself for all the good things you've done. It's okay to say, "God, I wish I'd done this; yeah, but I did do that." Then it kind of balances out.”
“Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.”
“A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.”

Source : "Grandma Moses, American Primitive: Forty Paintings". Book edited by Otto Kallir, 1947.
“Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we smile, "it's one of his funny days."”

Source : Fleur Adcock (2000). “Poems 1960-2000”, Bloodaxe Books Limited
“It's so weird for me to be watching The Good Wife while I'm still shooting The Good Wife.”

Source : "Meet Cush Jumbo, the Brit Star Who Plays The Good Wife's New BFF". Interview with Ronda Racha Penrice, www.theroot.com. October 18, 2015.

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