"Evolution is smarter than you are."

-- Leslie Orgel

#Evolution Quotes

“Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.”

Source : Philip Guedalla (1921). “Supers & supermen: studies in politics, history and letters”
“A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.”
“I wouldn't have become an engineer, I wouldn't have done what I did, had a hand not been held out to me. I have to remember who helped me when I needed help. The people of Jamaica helped me. I can't forget that. I would be ungrateful if I forgot.”
“Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.”

Source : Quoted in The AlgonquinWits, ed. Robert E. Drennan (1968)
“I'm a very emotional player. I use emotion because my team feeds off it.”
“I was going to become a youth worker because I do voluntary work with the kids in the little village where I live. I make little films with them and stuff when I'm not working. I thought, I'll pack it in then and go and do something I love doing, and get a regular job because I've got two kids and a mortgage.”

Source : "Gizza job, CBeebies". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2009.
“People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.”

Source : "Pay Someone to Name Your Child? How We Are Outsourcing Our Personal Affairs". Interview with Alyssa Figueroa, Don Hazen, www.alternet.org. August 13, 2012.
“No one, not even lovers, are truly psychic, and everyone flounders around each other, misunderstanding, misinterpreting, sending out confusing signals.”

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