"Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction."

-- Robert Nozick

#Survival Quotes #Engagement Quotes #Able Quotes

“Yesterday Michael Phelps set an all-time Olympic record for most medals. Phelps has so much gold on his chest he's been asked to join the cast of 'Jersey Shore.'”
“I dream of working with iconic directors such as Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson - so I'm setting my sights pretty high! My perfect role would be in a fairy-tale period piece, and I'm quite upset all the Harry Potter movies have been made as I'd love to have been in those.”
“Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.”
“Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard”
“A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned.”
“By all odds, earliest man, so naked to the elements and to deadly enemies, should have existed in a state of constant shock. We find him instead the only lighthearted being in a deadly serious universe.... He alone, with childish carelessness, tinkered and played, and exerted himself more in the pursuit of superfluities than of necessities. Yet the tinkering and playing, and the fascination with the nonessential, were a chief source of the inventiveness which enabled man to prevail over better-equipped and more-purposeful animals.”
“Reciprocity helps us balance the need for self-determination and creative individuality with mutual hope and, therefore, what might be described as 'solidarity.'”

Source : "David Blunkett: the challenge facing Labour today" by David Blunkett, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2013.
“All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.”

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