"How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms."

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Source : John Smith, Simon Patrick, John Worthington (1821). “Select discourses”, p.53

John Smith

#Atoms Quotes #Mutation Quotes #Generations Quotes

“Good moral character is the first essential in a man.”
“My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door.”
“Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath the surface, you realize in the repetition is constant variation.”

Source : "Deerhoof". Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. January 29, 2007.
“I would not call myself a veteran conspiracy theorist. Or an obsessed one. I pretty much peaked on the whole conspiracy theory thing in the '60s, with the grassy knoll, who really killed JFK, and who ordered the hit on Lee Harvey Oswald.”
“I'm telling you, you can't compare Saudi Arabia to other countries.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.”

Source : Steven Galloway (2009). “The Cellist of Sarajevo”, p.60, Atlantic Books Ltd
“People don't know where they stand and what they're going to lose, and that makes things uncertain. The political parties try to meld people together, but then that becomes a problem. There are parallels here, to American cities, which, in the '80s, with massive rural to urban migration, saw incredible amounts of violence.”
“Your heart is my piÃ±ata.”

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