"Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one."

-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Earth Quotes #Claims Quotes #Behave Quotes

“A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.”
“The soulâ€™s deepest thirst is for God Himself, who has made us so that we can never be satisfied without Him.”
“This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.”
“A leader has to show the face his team needs to see.”
“The struggle against subjectivism was the attempt to avoid the charge of what was then called "idealism" or "nihilism", i.e., that we know nothing more than our own representations.”

Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.
“I'm a child in that respect: able to live, physically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but always in danger of crushing the waited-for event with the freight of my excessive hope.”
“If you can't think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isn't scientific.”

Source : Jerry A. Coyne (2009). “Why Evolution Is True”, p.148, Penguin
“Unlike in school, in life you don't have to come up with all the right answers. You can ask the people around you for help - or even ask them to do the things you don't do well. In other words, there is almost no reason not to succeed if you take the attitude of 1) total flexibility - good answers can come from anyone or anywhere (and in fact, as I have mentioned, there are far more good answers 'out there' than there are in you) and 2) total accountability: regardless of where the good answers come from, it's your job to find them.”

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