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the imperialist prophets are pinning their hopes of "peaceful evolution" on the third or fourth generation of the Chinese Party. — Mao Zedong

Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study. — Idries Shah

The idea that you would affect evolution is a very profound thing. — Jennifer Doudna

We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution. — Werner Herzog

The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution. — Ray Comfort

The mechanism of natural selection depends on the survival, not of the strongest, nor the most intelligent, but of the most adaptable. — Julian Barnes

I wish I was Bill Murray. I hope everything I've read about evolution is wrong, and I eventually evolve into him. It's one of only three plans I have. — Caitlin Moran

A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose. — Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

The genius of evolution lies in the dynamic tension between optimism and pessimism continually correcting each other. — Martin E.P. Seligman

There is more to the human mind than its evolutionary heritage. — Kenan Malik

Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival. — Daniel Goleman

Evolution of knowledge is made towards simplicity and not complexity. — Daniel Marques

Love is the real work of your life. It is your spiritual path. It is the key to your growth and evolution. — Robert Holden

We are at an inflection point in history. — Joel Garreau

A sci-fi yarn that ponders the meaning of time and the importance of evolution while occasionally throwing in some shootouts. — James Berardinelli

the destiny of intelligent tool-using life was to be a stepping-stone in the evolution of corporate instruments. — Charles Stross

We do not know how life began. — Tracy Irwin Storer

Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution. — Marvin Minsky

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. — Rosa Luxemburg

Evolution isn't over. We are the experience that the universe is having. — Richard Bandler

To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution. — E. O. Wilson

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations. — George Santayana

What mattered was the evolution of a relationship. — C.D. Reiss

Marriage is the beginning of love for your spouse, not the result of it. — Shannon L. Alder

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite. — Karl Lagerfeld

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. — Steven Wright

Life constantly challenges us; it's not personal, just the natural process of growth and evolution. — Deborah Sandella

Thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution. — Nellie L. McClung

Thermodynamics, correctly interpreted, does not just allow Darwinian evolution; it favors it. — Ludwig Boltzmann

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The currency of evolution is neither hunger nor pain, but rather copies of DNA helixes — Yuval Noah Harari

No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man. — Henry Fairfield Osborn

Success is about evolution. Change is healthy. I like to reinvent myself. — Faith Hill

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Sleep is the brother of death. — Idries Shah

Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven. — Edwin Louis Cole

I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution. — Jamie Lee Curtis

Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy. — Charles Darwin

The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind. — Vironika Tugaleva

A lizard fucks a crab and nine months later a turtle pops out. It's called evolution. — Anthony Marra

Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest. — John Charles Chasteen

Creativity is a talent we inherit from God. — Kim Chestney

Are there really other things in life besides music? - Avery Jones in Love Evolution — Michelle Mankin

I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process. — Alexis Bledel

Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized. — Eugenie Scott

If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul. — Idries Shah

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Sure we fit. We wouldn't be here if we didn't. But the world wasn't made for us and it will endure without us. — Stephen Jay Gould

Tricking is a evolution of innovative movement & self Expression. — Armin Houman

A close inspection discovers an empirical impossibility to be inherent in the idea of evolution. — Nils Heribert-Nilsson

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world. — John Ambrose Fleming

Just because I believe in evolution doesn't mean I have to approve of it — Kurt Vonnegut

I wouldn't really worry to much about practicing the yoga of discrimination at this point in your evolution. — Frederick Lenz

I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme ... — Karl Popper

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion. — Richard Dawkins

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it. — John Wyndham

It's survival of the hang-in-there's, or the made-the-cuts, or the just good-enoughs. — Bill Nye

Truer words were never spoken. — Michelle Hodkin

Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works — Kevin Kelly

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse. — James D. Carswell

Certain barriers do require a critical mass of action at the right time to overcome the inertia that is greater than incremental change. — David Jaber

Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them. — Eugenie Scott

The final and conclusive evidence against evolution is the fact that the Bible denies it. — Henry M. Morris

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution. — Gary L. Francione

You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as being evolutionary. — Daniel Kahneman

Evolution is the most important battle that Christians have to fight today, a battle we must win by any means, fair or foul! — Hank Hanegraaff

One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say. — Mark Twain

Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore. — Idries Shah

The reason or dog's evolution could be to guide humans to their higher purpose. — Kristin Von Kreisler

We're following the evolution of tennis. On the women's side, there has been a very positive change, with the arrival of many new stars. — Stephane Simian

I only say this because a positive evolution happened in my life when I realized healthy relationships happen best between healthy people. — Donald Miller

For great many species today, "fitness" means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force. — Michael Pollan

We live, if we still do live, in a Sea of Chaos, out of which any fucking monster can evolve. — Stephen Jones

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it. — Jared Diamond

The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution. — Annie Besant

All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people. — Will Cuppy

Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival. — Robert A. Heinlein

Sixty eight percent of Republicans don't believe in evolution. On the other hand, only five percent of monkeys believe in Republicans. — Stephen Colbert

It was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'. — Idries Shah

Accepting your teen's individuality and natural evolution is one of the most difficult challenges you'll face as a parent. — Wendy Mogel

We need a revolution instead of a technology evolution. — Peter Sunde

Women's evolution unfolded through stages in the last 100 years. The first stage was "Wonder Woman," an idealized figure who functioned like — Sylvia Becker-Hill

You don't have to solve it, only evolve it! — Silvia Hartmann

Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here? — Stephen Baldwin

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution. — Graham Greene

Neither evolution nor creation qualifies as a scientific theory. — Duane Gish

Pay per click was just the beginning. The real evolution is pay per action. — Bill Gross

The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun'Nun, by aiming for 'being as you were, where you were, before you were'. — Idries Shah

t can be easily argued that all living things are conscious in some aspect, but many would agree that advanced consciousness like our own is unique. — Kat Lahr

Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path. — Idries Shah

Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion. — Stephen Jay Gould

But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'. — Idries Shah

No matter how numerous they may be, mutations do not produce any kind of evolution. — Pierre-Paul Grasse

B2FH traces these various fusion reactions and explains the recipe for producing everything up to iron: it's nothing less than evolution for elements. — Sam Kean

Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years' time. — Idries Shah

Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words. — Idries Shah

To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves. — Idries Shah

What is sure is that the satellite view of our world and its evolution is now a common reality. — Olivier Theyskens

If you look at the evolution of games from console to Internet to mobile, and look at social networking from Web to mobile, everything is fragmenting. — Chris DeWolfe

The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

But I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation. — E.J.H. Corner