"In the past even scientists have been led to believe that only human beings have thoughts or emotions. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth... After all, thoughts and emotions have evolutionary value."

-- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

#Believe Quotes #Past Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“I don't like conservatives. They always talk about the good old days. I'm black, we have no good old days.”
“Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.”
“Meet the future; the future mode of transportation for this weary Western world. Now I'm not gonna make a lot of extravagant claims for this little machine. Sure, it'll change your whole life for the better, but that's all.”
“That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time”
“Feudal Europe is over, but it found its way into film culture. It found its way into postmodern painting culture, and we're all here talking about it today. It still lives. I don't believe in ghosts, but these are contemporary ghosts.”
“We trust the bully much better than we trust the underdog. Maybe it's in our nature, but it is so that all around the world there is this certain type that can succeed in politics and it's people who are - alpha types.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.”
“To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception”

Source : Alfred Russel Wallace (1875). “Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of Essays”, p.365

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