"If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour."

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Source : "The Crucible of Creation". Book by Simon Conway Morris, 1998.

Simon Conway Morris

#Past Quotes #Evil Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“I was once afraid of people saying, â€œWho does she think she is?â€ Now I have the courage to stand and say, â€œThis is who I am.”
“Be wise. Treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself, you will become gentle with others.”
“I think 3D at 24 frames is interesting, but it's the 48 that actually allows 3D to achieve the potential that it can achieve, because it's less eye strain and you have a sharper picture which creates more of a 3-dimensional world.”
“Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.”
“The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer.”
“I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.”

Source : 1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA
“One night I attended a Laughing Liberally comedy show. There was one funny comedian there - Lee Camp.”
“Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.”

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