"Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view. Yet the living results of natural selection overwhelmingly impress us with the appearance of design as if by a master watchmaker, impress us with the illusion of design and planning."

-- Richard Dawkins

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“[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets.”

Source : Sir William Jones (1875). “Eleven Discourses: Containing His Anniversary Addresses on History, Civil and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences and Literature of Asia”, p.129
“Governor Scott Walker didn't know who he was messing with when he picked a fight with the hard-working union folks of Wisconsin. He must have forgotten that Wisconsin is the Badger State. And badgers are scrappy little creatures. We may look cute, warm and fuzzy, but we have a fighting spirit.”

Source : "The Struggle Continues: The Wisconsin Labor Movement One Year Later" by Rep. Gwen Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2012.
“It's cool to be a nerd. There's a general understanding that smartphones didn't come from jocks. The digital age was foreseen by a group of short-sleeved, buttoned-down, white-shirted guys and their female equivalents designing the very stuff that's now ubiquitous.”
“There are lots of people who give their all and have that inner glow on. It's a shame that majority of them are under seven years old.”
“Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.”
“You can live a life of either trusting your inner voice or distrusting your inner voice. You can cling to familiar expectations, conventions, and "reasonable" responses or you can listen to the sweet madness in your bones.”
“I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.”
“If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.”

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