"Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect."

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Source : "Seals, evolution, and the real 'missing link'" by Kenneth R Miller, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2009.

Kenneth R. Miller

#Epic Quotes #Stories Quotes #Evolution Quotes

“I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.”
“"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. "Yeah, that's true," I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, "But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all."”
“My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.”
“It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.”

Source : "Readers recommend: chicken-and-egg songs" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. April 02, 2015.
“I don't understand how most pop stars live this life being told what to do, what to wear, all the time. Maybe money does mean more to some people.”
“I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question, From how deep and true an impulse did it spring? Was it written merely to shock? Only to make money? Or was it written to create something more perfect and more lasting than the life experience from which it came?”

Source : Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr
“What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak. It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.”

Source : Gaston Bachelard's epigraph to Seamus Heaney "An Open Letter", 1983.
“We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.”

Source : Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3859, Delphi Classics

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