"With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way in which the physical characteristics of human communities are related to their cultural capabilities can be written on the back of a postage stamp."

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Source : Lancelot Thomas Hogben (1940). “Dangerous Thoughts”

Lancelot Hogben

#Responsibility Quotes #Community Quotes #Way Quotes

“For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not.”
“But I couldn't ever make that dream happen. It just came on its own, the way dreams do.”

Source : emily m. danforth (2012). “The Miseducation of Cameron Post”, p.34, Harper Collins
“With love, even the rocks will open.”
“My cell phone fell off my lap. I was reaching for it in the back.”
“Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough.”
“I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason," and I think I've figured out what the reason is - to pissed me off.”
“Losing is like smoking. It's habit forming.”
“I don't think people want to see someone buy a congressional race.”

Source : "Willem and able" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2003.

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