"Human beings are just gene machines."

-- Richard Dawkins

#Machines Quotes #Genes Quotes #Humans Quotes

“Your moral stance depends on what you think is being aborted. If you don't believe it to be a person but part of a woman's body, of course you will be pro-choice. I would be virulently pro-choice if I didn't believe it to be a person.”
“...be a light unto the darkness, and curse it not”
“Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.”
“I'm a simple man, and I use simple materials.”

Source : In Mervyn Levy 'Paintings of L. S. Lowry' (1975) p. 11
“Me and apparently a lot of other people felt that the people who should benefit most from the country are the people who contribute the most, which is the middle class, who are drafted into the army, spend three years there and 25 years in the reserves. That is why I had enough votes to create out of nowhere the second-largest party in the country.”
“I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order to get at. I want there to be a waiting time -a pause between the writing and the reading. I want us to be careful about what we say to each other. I want the miles between us to be real and long. This will be our law -that we write our dailiness and our suffering very, very carefully.”
“HENRY: Now it is necessary to court her, and win her, and put on this clean dressing gown, and cut my various nails, and drink something that will kill the millions of germs in my mouth, and say something flattering, and be witty and bonny, and hale and kinky, all just to ease this wrinkle in the groin. It seems a high price.”
“Look, I'm not a demon here. I don't eat babies or kick puppies. I just tell the truth." She shrugged. "Can I help it if that makes the liars of the world angry?”

Source : Charlaine Harris, Maggie Shayne, Barbara Hambly (2009). “Night's Edge: Dancers in the Dark\Her Best Enemy\Someone Else's Shadow”, p.139, HQN Books

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