"The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity."

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George Orwell

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“We all use the future to escape the present.”

Source : John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.47, Penguin
“When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At least I do.”
“People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.”
“Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.”
“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.”

Source : Ralph Moody (1991). “Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers”, p.177, U of Nebraska Press
“There are plenty of wonderful, good fat people in the USA that have no problems being fat, who I have no problems with being fat.”
“In course of time the slow advance of knowledge, which has dispelled so many cherished illusions, convinced at least the more thoughtful portion of mankind that the alterations of summer and winter, of spring and autumn, were not merely the result of their own magical rites, but that some deeper cause, some mightier power, was at work behind the shifting scenes of nature.”

Source : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.
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