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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. 
 
In strong wind, even turkeys can fly.
 
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.
 
Given the scale of life in the cosmos, one human life is no more than a tiny blip. Each one of us is a just visitor to this planet, a guest, who will only stay for a limited time. What greater folly could there be than to spend this short time alone, unhappy or in conflict with our companions? Far better, surely, to use our short time here in living a meaningful life, enriched by our sense of connection with others and being of service to them.
 
When a group of people make something sacred, they lose the ability to think clearly about it.
 
Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
 
The hours of your life are the most valuable currency you will ever have. How will you spend them?
 
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
 
All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the earth.
 
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
 
If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.
 
Etc.: A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.
 
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer, so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
 
Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal because -- the living world constituting but a tiny and very "special" part of the universe -- it does not seem likely that the study of living beings will ever uncover general laws applicable outside the biosphere. But if the ultimate aim of the whole of science is indeed, as I believe, to clarify man's relationship to the universe, then biology must be accorded a central position.
 
The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
 
Anyone can become angry —that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way —this is not easy.
 
In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will.
 
It is humiliating to have to appear like an empty tube which is simply inflated by a mind.
 
A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.
 
I'm looking at Sue. Sue's looking at Tom. Tom's looking at Kathy.
 
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