"Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise."

-- Norman Macbeth

#Mean Quotes #Problem Quotes #Natural Quotes

“No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt too attached to rest and to pleasure, too much slaves to fortune to ever know the true price of liberty. We boast of being free! To show how much we have become slaves, it is enough just to cast a glance on the capital and examine the morals of its inhabitants.”

Source : L'Ami du peuple newspaper, No. 559, August 27, 1791.
“Honey the party went away quickly, but thats the trouble with ticking and talking.”
“Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding.”
“I think big data companies only like good news. So I think they're just hoping that they don't get sued, essentially.”
“I called all of the producers and although we didn't have enough money to do that, I had to actually know which shots I wanted to get because we only had at most, one or two takes and then we had to move on.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been in pain for a long time, when you wake up every morning with a rising sense of hysteria, then boredom is what you want, marathon sleeps, a silence in yourself.”

Source : Truman Capote (2012). “Answered Prayes”, p.74, Vintage
“Share prices follow the theorem: hope divided by fear minus greed.”
“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”

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