"What you cannot have is a gene that sacrifices itself for the benefit of other genes. What you can have is a gene that makes organisms sacrifice themselves for other organisms under the influence of selfish genes."

-- Richard Dawkins

#Selfish Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Benefits Quotes

“Live while you live, the epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day; Live while you live the sacred preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies. Lord, in my views let both united be; I live to pleasure when I live to thee.”

Source : Philip Doddridge, Andrew Kippis (1807). “The family expositor: or, A paraphrase and version of the New Testament; with critical notes, and a practical improvement of each section ...”, p.32
“Everyone in California is from somewhere else.”

Source : Wright Morris (1977). “Love Among the Cannibals”, p.9, U of Nebraska Press
“Experiment is the mother of knowledge.”
“This has always been my problem with genres is that they've turned into marketing tools. I've never been a person that allows themselves to be in any kind of box and I think that genres can be used as tools to define BPM or something but I think they're suffocating of music and other art. And I think they're inaccurate when they come to describing my work. Maybe other people like defining it, but I don't.”

Source : Source: www.acclaimmag.com
“There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.”
“Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.”
“We are talking about Christianizing America. We are talking about the Gospel in a political context.”
“My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, "Please leave your foolishness at home." But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.”

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