"I'm definitely preoccupied by thinking I'm just a biological thing. I want to feel that there's more, but so often I'm reminded of how we're just like baboons, basically."

-- Yannis Philippakis

#Thinking Quotes #Want Quotes #Baboons Quotes

“Appearances have very little to do with happiness.”

Source : George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. By George Eliot ....”, p.253
“He preaches well that lives well”
“And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.”
“A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.”
“Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it.”

Source : "Jeremy Corbyn antisemitism speech in full: Labour leader vows to stamp out 'hateful language or debate' The Labour leader welcomed a response recommending immediate action for the Labour" by Lizzie Dearden, www.independent.co.uk. June 30, 2016.
“A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.”

Source : 1914 Title of poem, in Cosmopolis, May.
“I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.”
“Back in middle school, Catherine and I had gone through this stage where all we would read were fantasy books. We'd consume them like M&M's, by the fistful, J.R.R. Tolkien and Terry Brooks and Susan Cooper and Lloyd Alexander. Susan Boone looked, to me, like the queen of the elves (there's almost always an elf queen in fantasy books). I mean, she was shorter than me and had on a strange lineny outfit in pale blues and greens....”

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