"Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and wants. It engages the mechanisms of reciprocal altruism, as the evolutionary biologists call it, as opposed to raw dominance."

-- Steven Pinker

#Mean Quotes #People Quotes #Guy Quotes

“He really wished she would stop fingering the brick.”
“I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.”
“As long as there's a body of water nearby, I'm happy. Pools don't count. I like diving into the ocean and coming out refreshed.”

Source : "Sarah Sanguin Carter: Esquire's Summer Hostess". Interview with Steve Ciccarelli, www.esquire.com. June 6, 2011.
“Pain is always preferable to numbness.”

Source : Scott Anderson (1999). “Triage: A Novel”, p.179, Simon and Schuster
“I like having my own style; love my work or hate my work, it's my own.”
“There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them at the aquarium at the Jardin des Plantes and stayed for hours watching them, observing their immobility; their faint movements. Now I am an axolotl.”
“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.”

Source : "The Paris unity march shows we must protect freedom of expression, not curtail it further" by Julie Posetti, January 11, 2015.
“I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me”

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