"The more details we learn about the chemical basis of life and the intricacy of the genetic code, the more unbelievable the standard historical account becomes"

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Source : Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False”, p.11, Oxford University Press

Thomas Nagel

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“Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future.”
“Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke.”
“People kill and are killed because they cling too tightly to their own beliefs and ideologies. When we believe that ours is the only faith that contains the truth, violence and suffering will surely be the result.”
“There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark”
“Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.”
“I feel comfortable here primarily because I think Los Angeles is made up of people who don't come from here, so you can find kindred spirits very easily. It's a town of gypsies.”

Source : "Matthew Rhys on Brothers and Sisters". Interview with Neil Midgley, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 21, 2010.
“Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.”

Source : Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.465, Penguin
“We can all learn to live jubilantly. We can all learn to alter our attitudes so that we can better realize our dreams.”

Source : Joan Lunden (2001). “Wake-up calls”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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