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God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs. God created Man. Man destroyed God. Man created dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man...Woman inherits the earth.

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.

This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful things and you imagine terrible things, and you take no...

Power is neither male or female.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.

All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch...

Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree.

Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they're not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat

You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.

Malcolm: A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and kill his wife. The person who kills is the person who has no discipline, no restraint, and who has...

Friendships are nice. So is competence.

- Do not light your server to judgment, for no man will be justified before you if you do not give you the forgiveness of all your sins, so I do not make your verdict too heavy. I ask your help and...

Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of the water want to understand it. Other people jump in and get wet.

Those who put themselves with double meaning conversations have to think first of what they are getting into. A straight person who speaks as he grew up the beak rarely takes in the tromb. And if it...

All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.

"I'm already fed up with this," he exclaimed the second cable. "So you're a happy man," said Svejk. - Some people never get fed up.

Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your...

A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in photons and electrons. Can you imagine anything so silly?' They'll...

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

There is nothing worse for working than a people like those bands, who can not read or write and only signs with three cruzinhas, which our Intendance knew very well, so that when we had money to get...

{...} So there we hanged him, but it was only hung for a few seconds, that the rope broke and he fell to the ground, but soon came to himself and shouted at me: «Mr. General, I go home , they have...

"It's very bad," Svejk continued, "that a person suddenly begins to give himself to a philosophical considerations, as this always brings a smell to delirium tremens."

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the ones who had taken it away--become afraid, more protective of their endangered interests, more...

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat.

Geniuses never pay attention.

They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't...

At that moment Švejk looked as if he had fallen down from the sky from some other planet and he was now looking with naïve wonder at a new world where people were demanding from him idiotic nonsense...

Sometimes women scare the hell out of me.