"We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?"

-- Robert Ardrey

#Angel Quotes #Killers Quotes #Apes Quotes

“The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.”
“The reason for backing tracks is to not veer off too far from the record and have what the fans actually want to hear. Artists use backing tracks just so they can stay close to the record and what the consumer heard for the first time. It's not to be confused with lip synching or anything like that cos that's not happening at all.”
“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”
“Persons living in this modern world who do not know the basic facts that determine their very existence, functioning, and surroundings, are living in a dream world. Such persons are, in a very real sense, not sane.”

Source : Gerald James Holton (1988). “Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein”, p.464, Harvard University Press
“I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.”
“Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.”

Source : Daily Telegraph, January 19, 1989.
“President Obama believes that we have a moral obligation to the next generation to leave our land, water, and wildlife better than we found it,”

Source : "Secretary Jewell Offers Vision for Conservation, Balanced Development, Youth Engagement in National Press Club Speech", www.doi.gov. October 31, 2013.
“Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.”

Source : "The Unpractised Heart" by Leonard Alfred George Strong, (p. 147), 1942.

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