"[On peanut M&Ms:] It is the eggness of them. A shell, chocolate placenta, proteiny peanut baby. Life shape, birth shape, cell shape, protoplasmic-ooze shape. A shape that calls straight through civilization to our reptilian brains."

-- Cynthia Heimel

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“Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.”
“I can tell when men are threatened by my height.”
“As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.”
“It's pretty easy to make a film in China. A few years ago I just walked into the office and let them know I wanted to make a movie called 'Red Cliff' and they were so excited. They said, 'Let's do it!' It's that simple.”
“I'm a mutt as far as music is concerned, because I listen to everything.”
“Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without Olga.”
“Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.”

Source : Nick Bostrom (2014). “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies”, p.53, OUP Oxford
“Dear God I've heard your name from teachers, family and friends, you made the universe and so will live on when it ends. Everyone I know admits they've never seen your face, they're not sure where you live and have no map to the place.”

Source : "Song: 'Dear God' ('A Picnic of Poems in Allah's Green Garden')". 2011.

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