"I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred."

-- John B. S. Haldane

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“Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity.”
“What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.”
“When we withhold the tithe we bring upon ourselves a curse.”
“The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home.”
“Every tree, every plant, has a spirit. People may say that the plant has no mind. I tell them that the plant is alive & conscious. A plant may not talk, but there is a spirit in it that is conscious, that sees everything, which is the soul of the plant, its essence, what makes it alive. The channels through which the water & sap move are the veins of the spirit.”

Source : Pablo Amaringo (2014). “Ayahuasca Visions”, CreateSpace
“The only thing privacy laws accomplish is making the bugs smaller.”
“This would be a tricky operation, no doubt of that, and a mistake would probably be fatal. So many things he had done over the years would have been fatal, had his luck not been strongly good. He had cheated death dozens of times, but that did not mean he could take it as a given. A man needed only one fatal mistake to end the game.”
“Sometimes, your eyes see something your brain doesn't. You pick up a nmewspaper and yourhead gives you a phrase that you didn't consciously read yet. You walk into a room and you realize something's out of place before you've bothered to properly look. I felt that happening now." "Sam's thoughts on page 304 of Linger.”

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