"Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The intelligent gorilla doesn't do as well as the less intelligent but more-fecund rat, which doesn't do as well as the still-less-intelligent but still-more-fecund cockroach, which doesn't do as well as the minimally-intelligent but maximally-fecund bacterium."

-- Isaac Asimov

#Intelligent Quotes #Keys Quotes #Survival Quotes

“Basketball is basketball.”
“BE PURPOSEFUL AND THOUGHTFUL IN THE CHOICES YOU MAKE WHEN THE OPTIONS ARE NEARLY INFINITE.”
“The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.”
“I think that all things are spirit and are derived from spirit. When you look at life from that perspective, it takes on a whole new meaning.”
“To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.”

Source : "On the International Workingmen's Association and Karl Marx" by Mikhail Bakunin (1872), as quoted in Mikhail Bakunin "Bakunin on Anarchism" edited and translated by Sam Dolgoff, www.marxists.org. 1971.
“I just took some ecstasy, ain't no tellin' what the side effects could be.”
“My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills.”
“You can't ever work too much because there's no such thing as being in too good condition. You can't ever lift too many weights because you can't ever get too strong. You can't ever wrestle too much because you can always do better.”

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