"The meaning that we are seeking in evolution is its meaning to us, to man. The ethics of evolution must be human ethics. It is one of the many unique qualities of man, the new sort of animal, that he is the only ethical animal. The ethical need and its fulfillment are also products of evolution, but they have been produced in man alone."

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Source : George Gaylord Simpson (1956). “The Meaning of Evolution”

George Gaylord Simpson

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“Growing up in Hollywood, like I did, I have a passion and a love for the movies, so I go to the cinema all the time.”
“I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.”
“Great necessities call out great virtues.”

Source : Letter to John Quincy Adams, 19 Jan. 1780
“There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Admirable gardens of absurd beliefs, forebodings, obsessions and frenzies. Unknown, ever-changing gods take shape there.”
“Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness.”
“God realizes His people need protection from the pains and heartaches of the world.”
“Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio.”
“Be a follower of JESUS CHRIST--I am not seeking followers of my own. Don't be a follower of a MAN--but of CHRIST!”

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