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Quotes About Evolution

We have had many lifetimes as human beings to learn of the many, many ways we do not wish to be. But we are human, she said. And therefore we already are, every way there is
~ Alice Walker
in the beginning she'd felt bereft, to have been shown so much and to have been patiently taught so much, and then to feel it evaporate. But she'd realized the teachings simply became a part of her. They became hers.
~ Alice Walker
The world is as beautiful as it ever was. It is changing, but then it always has been. This is a good time to change, and remain beautiful, with it.
~ Alice Walker
That was the beginning of her abstraction.
~ Alice Walker
Femeile nu se descurc? bine în spaÅ£iu, pentru c? în evoluÅ£ia lor n-au vînat altceva decît b?rbaÅ£i.
~ Allan Pease
Most people have difficulty thinking of themselves as just another animal. They refuse to face the fact that 96% of what can be found in their bodies can also be found inside a pig or a horse or that our DNA is 97. 5% identical to that of a gorilla and 98. 4% to that of a chimpanzee. The only thing that makes us different from other animals is our ability to think and make forward plans.
~ Allan Pease Barbara Pease
You know, the guys there were so beautiful—they've lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago.
~ Allen Ginsberg
My great-great-grandchildren will be born with prehensile texting thumbs, no vocal cords and zero capacity to read human facial expressions.
~ Allison Pearson
The great growling engine of change – technology.
~ Alvin Toffler
We are moving swiftly into the era of the temporary product, made by temporary methods, to serve temporary needs.
~ Alvin Toffler
Os analfabetos do futuro não serão os que não sabem ler ou escrever, mas os que não sabem aprender, desaprender e reaprender.
~ Alvin Toffler
The world of today is as different from the world in which i was born as that world was from julius ceasar's . I was born in the middle of human history , to date roughly . Almost as much as happened since i was born as happened before.
~ Alvin Toffler
It's all biology. If it weren't for two thousand years of the Christian tradition we wouldn't think of pretending otherwise…Romance is the true opiate of the masses.
~ Amanda Craig
While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either.
~ Amartya Sen
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Nothing is settled; no truth finds general acceptance. What we do one year we undo the next, and do over again the year following. Our energy is wasted in, and our prosperity suffers from, experiments endlessly repeated.
~ Ambrose Bierce
MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.
~ Ambrose Bierce
As we run, we become.
~ Amby Burfoot
I run because I am an animal. I run because it is part of my genetic wiring. I run because millions of years of evolution have left me programmed to run. And, finally, I run because there's no better way to see the sun rise and set.
~ Amby Burfoot
When was it exactly that I became... this? By small degrees, I suppose. One act presses hard upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then one day we look up and fine we are... this.
~ Joe Abercrombie
When was it exactly that I became… this? By small degrees, I suppose. One act presses hard upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then one day we look up and find we are… this.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Nothing is ever fixed. From the moment it is born, from the moment it is built, everything is always dying, decaying, drifting into chaos.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Either you are a part of my future, or a relic of the past.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The world is all change, my friend. We all would like to go back, but the past is done. We must look forwards. We must change ourselves, however painful it may be, or be left behind.
~ Joe Abercrombie