"I have always been slightly suspicious of the theory of evolution because of its ability to account for any property of living beings (the long neck of the giraffe, for example). I have therefore tried to see whether biological discoveries over the last thirty years or so fit in with Darwin's theory. I do not think that they do. To my mind, the theory does not stand up at all."

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Source : Source: thequietus.com

Henry Lipson

#Thinking Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Years Quotes

“in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.”

Source : Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”
“Love will heal What language fails to know”

Source : Carol Ann Duffy, Vicki Feaver, Eavan Boland (1995). “Carol Ann Duffy, Vicki Feaver, Eavan Boland”
“[I] never talk about gratitude and joy separately, for this reason. In 12 years, I've never interviewed a single person who would describe their lives as joyful, who would describe themselves as joyous, who was not actively practicing gratitude.”
“I always thought it was the saddest and most devastating ending. How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it you could just make yourself smaller over time. I don't want that to happen to me.”

Source : Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings”, p.202, Random House
“You want to remain hungry and stay in a good place as a competitor; at the same time, you want to be confident but not cocky. You have to realize that you can lose. We have to stay hungry, because losing is the worst thing that can happen now. That's a road we don't want to go down.”
“to feed, help, protect, comfort, console, support, nurse, or heal to be fed, helped, nursed, protected, comforted, consoled, supported, nursed, or healed to form mutually enjoyable, enduring, cooperating and reciprocating relationship with Other, with an equal to be forgiven to be loved to be free”

Source : Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.235, A&C Black
“A wise man's questions contain half the answer.”
“One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.”

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