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“You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.”
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“A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very little fear.”
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“Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.”
Source : 'Discourses concerning Government' (1698) ch. 2, sect. 18
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“To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling.”
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“I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats, whales, subhuman primates, superprimate humans, the lot. I can say this because we do not know what we are talking about: consciousness is so much a total mystery for our own species that we cannot begin to guess about its existence in others.”
Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
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“The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.”
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“And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative.”
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“The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.”
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“I was told I make intelligent comics, and then I made a comic about a horse that pooped.”
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“I went to a school that was founded on a lot of very radical ideals of how education should be changed. But what's happening to schools like that sort of all over the country is in economic pressure they're becoming more and more preparatory because that's what people will really pay the money for private schooling for now.”
