"The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic forms traversed is longer; and it is more accurately retained the less the mode of life of the recent forms differs from that of the earlier, and the less the peculiarities of the several embryonic states must be regarded as transferred from a later to an earlier period of life, or as acquired independently."

-- Fritz Muller

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“How can love survive in such a graceless age? The trust and self assurance that lead to happiness, they're the very things we kill.”

Source : Song: The Heart Of The Matter, Album: The End of the Innocence
“Dealing with architecture brings me very close to the state of mind required to make pictures. One also needs an old seeing eye, appropriate reflexes which embrace sensitive observations coupled with appropriate emotional responses.”
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“A cool & diversified version of a mix tape. The BreakBeat Poets is a thorough and complete summation of Golden Era writers who continue to build the scene of literary and performance poetry.”
“To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.”

Source : Carl L. Becker (2013). “Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas”, p.188, Vintage
“You can achieve a goal; you never really achieve your purpose, because your purpose is ongoing. It never stops.”
“As much as it's nice to step into that massive world of Hollywood and be a big, famous actor, I prefer the career of actors that have really chosen smartly and done really amazing performances. Maybe they're not as known, but their careers are a bit more interesting.”

Source : "Idris Elba Talks LUTHER Season 3, Luther’s New Love Interest and His Relationship with Alice, Exploring a Prequel Story, and Future Seasons". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 28, 2013.
“It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world in which we live. It furnishes the vision. It shows with intense clarity what is already there.”

Source : Helen Smith Bevington (1961). “When Found, Make a Verse of”

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