"Don't assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals."

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Source : "Infinity Beach". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2000.

Jack McDevitt

#Intelligent Quotes #Assuming Quotes #Individual Quotes

“I'm not that interested in people”
“Im not the type of person to point fingers at anybody, and I dont want anybody saying anything to me. There are situations where balls are bounced to your feet you dont say anything.”
“Karrin, eh?" Thomas asked. I nodded. "She's real serious about order. A man dying, she can understand. A man coming back. That's different." "Isn't she Catholic?" Thomas asked. "Don't they have a guy?”
“Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.”
“Next time you wish to feed me poison, warn me first," Loor demanded. (The Merchant of Death)”
“The government should now launch an initiative to encourage people to join the social work profession.”

Source : "How Whitehall betrayed social workers" by Andy Sawford, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2009.
“If there be a true way that leads to the Everlasting Kingdom, it is most certainly that of suffering, patiently endured.”
“If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed.”

Source : Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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