"Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences."

-- Timothy Leary

#Environment Quotes #Adaptation Quotes #Individual Quotes

“I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.”
“The real death of America will come when everyone is alike.”
“This is The Tonight Show. I can't tell you too much about it, other than the fact that this program is going to go on forever.”

Source : First broadcast of "The Tonight Show", 1953.
“My goal is to write stories that are connected, but not sequels in any meaningful sense. Like Howard's Conan tales or Leiber's Fahrrd & the Great Mauser stories.”
“At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.”
“I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to work.”
“You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you're on the right.”
“Love is the piety of the affections.”

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