"Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans."

-- Stephen Jay Gould

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“As the member of a firefighter family myself, supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important, personal cause of mine.”
“When we know that the cause of something is in ourselves, and that we (ourselves) are one of the few things in the universe that we have the right and ability to change, we begin to get a sense of the choices we really do have, an inkling of the power we have, a feeling of being in charge... of our lives, of our future, of our dreams.”
“These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.”

Source : Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”
“In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.”

Source : "Beth Simone Noveck, Former U.S Deputy Chief Technology Officer, On The Tech Trends That Worry Her Most". Interview with Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2011.
“I think actors, at a certain point in their careers, decide they're either going to keep taking risks or take the exact same risk over and over again so that it's not a risk anymore. That's when I don't want to work with them. I think there are some actors who are just doing the exact same thing, and they will never shift from it.”

Source : Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. March 4, 1998.
“The biggest superpower you can have is the ability to change your own life. Itâ€™s in your hands, and if you believe that you can get the power you want, you can do whatever you wish to do.”
“God is, to me, pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we're all responsible for our own actions.”

Source : "Is there a God?". Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2000.
“Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom.”

Source : Omar Khayyam (1898). “Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám”

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