"To lose hope in the future is to begin to die."

-- Karen Kijewski

“Man is now in charge of the thermostat for the globe.”
“I still can't understand how Cecil and my old tutor, Fitz, got along so well, when we often called Fitz 'the Genius' and avoided calling Cecil anything at all, so as not to be rude.”
“He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.”
“The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire population was started by a single pair or by a single fertilized female. These 'founders' of the population carried with them only a very small proportion of the variability of the parent population. This 'founder' principle sometimes explains even the uniformity of rather large populations, particularly if they are well isolated and near the borders of the range of the species.”

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“You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.”

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“You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?”
“We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.”
“If you ever got me, you wouldn't have a clue what to do with me.”

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