Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us.


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CARL LEWIS
If the money's right, I'm happy to bust up the other side of his face... No problem.
LENNOX LEWIS
As a business owner, leadership is more than just telling others what to do. Leadership is about the...
LEWIS HOWES
Among the social networks, LinkedIn can be one of the most useful when it comes to cultivating criti...
LEWIS HOWES
If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because th...
RICHARD LEWIS
As a business owner who is looking to market his or her company, you should be on the lookout for op...
LEWIS HOWES
As a business owner, what's the sense in having droves of followers and connections if you aren&...
LEWIS HOWES
We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the C...
MERIWETHER LEWIS
I'm out there most every night, ... My work schedule, of course, is pretty rigid, but every moment I...
ALAN LEWIS
We need to do a better job of treating our residents.
ALAN LEWIS
This building size should capture a segment of the market that we feel is active and has not been pr...
ALAN LEWIS
Did your grandparents ever share any stories about growing up in the country?
ALAN LEWIS
If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.
ALAN LEWIS
A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it o...
DAMIAN LEWIS
I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been ...
DAMIAN LEWIS
You just have to take control of your own performance.
DAMIAN LEWIS
Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
DAMIAN LEWIS
All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.
DAMIAN LEWIS
I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to su...
DAMIAN LEWIS
There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into y...
DAMIAN LEWIS
Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words...
DAMIAN LEWIS
If you think you don't want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the direc...
DAMIAN LEWIS
I found the hedge-fund guys I met all to be very, very concentrated listeners - watchful and articul...
DAMIAN LEWIS
I love playing sport.
DAMIAN LEWIS
You have to go where the good writing is.
DAMIAN LEWIS
I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.
DAMIAN LEWIS
The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and...
DAMIAN LEWIS
I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
DAMIAN LEWIS
You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a tradin...
DAMIAN LEWIS
I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes y...
DAMIAN LEWIS
In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still you...
DAMIAN LEWIS
I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.
DAMIAN LEWIS
For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
DAMIAN LEWIS
People need revelation, and then they need resolution.
DAMIAN LEWIS
In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain ...
DAMIAN LEWIS
No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro,...
EDMONIA LEWIS
Until I was twelve years old, I led this wandering life, fishing, swimming, and making moccasins.
EDMONIA LEWIS
I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a ...
EDMONIA LEWIS
I have a strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.
EDMONIA LEWIS
Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather y...
EDMONIA LEWIS
My features I take from my father, but my spirit, my industry and perseverance I get from my Indian ...
EDMONIA LEWIS
There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the bough...
EDMONIA LEWIS
Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a wa...
EDMONIA LEWIS
Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come lat...
FLORA LEWIS
I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of exp...
FLORA LEWIS
We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
FLORA LEWIS