"Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts."

-- Charles Stross

#Smart Quotes #Intelligent Quotes #Average Quotes

“Obviously, it's great to know that your music is being listened to.”
“The work these brave men and women do is extremely important, not only to our nation but to all the countries that our troops are stationed at around the world. I am grateful to the USO for having us and to all the troops who shared their day with us.”
“The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.”
“To those of you looking at photos I took with my husband years ago in the privacy of our home, hope you feel great about yourselves,”
“The way I grew up, when you're married, you have to stay married together.”
“The health of life on Earth depends on its oceans. But unless we save our seas from the growing mounds of pop bottles, cigarette butts and plastic trash, soon there won't be much healthy sea left.”
“100,000,000 Guinea Pigs sparked a rising wave of consumer indignation. But...it takes a major catastrophe to carry legal and enforcement action over the hump of lethargy and inaction....Today, nearly forty years later, the situation is worse, not better.”
“Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul?”

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