"Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture."

-- Richard Leakey

#Law Quotes #Skills Quotes #Survival Quotes

“There's no ceiling... just a continuation of improvement.”
“The problem with Prosperity Theology is not that it promises too much, but that it aims for so little. What God promises us in Christ is far above anything that can be measured in earthly wealth - and believers are not promised earthly wealth nor the gift of health.”
“If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.”
“A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.”
“What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.”
“Not one person I know isn't concerned with their appearance. To trivialize fashion is to rob ourselves of a great tool.”
“The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient... but efficiency is not the most, it is perhaps the least, important among the undoubted elements of good literature”

Source : Henry Seidel Canby (1922). “Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism”
“You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.”

Source : Dagobert D. Runes (2015). “Treasury of Thought”, p.172, Open Road Media

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