The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it will never feel right to us.
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10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what... HARRY STYLES To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive... DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... STEVEN STRAIT Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st... NEHA KOTHARI We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by ac... ROBERT REDFORD The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY I saw that there is no Nature, That Nature doesn’t exist, That there are hills, valleys,... ALBERTO CAEIRO He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,... LAURIE FRANKEL There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him. CASSANDRA CLARE Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask... JAY NORTHCOTE You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made... CALVIN JOHNSON I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read. ALBERTO CAEIRO Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. STEPHEN KING What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa... ERIK GRIFFIN A man can define many things beautifully in his life, but his character is one beautiful thing that ... ANUJ SOMANY I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are. MONIKA ZANDS Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD it's always important to do what you want, Life is too short to live with Regrets. SHELLI THOMPSON I'm not an Emontional, but how??? I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has... DEYTH BANGER When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci... DEYTH BANGER Everything known and referred to as “impossible” is often what has not been attempted before. It... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to ... LARRY MCMURTRY Better to feel nothing, to be numb, than to lose control. It's the only way I know to deal with it. JULIE KAGAWA Getting on with her life is important. But right now it may be more important to put the feelings ou... JENNIFER BROWN When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani... DAVE GROHL Do. Then talk. In that order. SOTERO M LOPEZ II If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you. Either you just let the grudge go, or mak... TOBA BETA You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you a... PAULO COELHO It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes th... MOTHER TERESA See the world for what it is. BEAUTIFUL! ANTHONY T. HINCKS Let your actions speak LOVE. No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO I want to tell few things, I like the truth in all faces. why?? It's the truth one road and tha... DEYTH BANGER The same ocean of love became the ocean of sorrow in which I drowned...
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN I love my destruction.
Cause I still love the cause of my destruction
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN She broke her own heart by holding him into it....
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN She craved for the moon, not knowing there were other stars in the sky too...
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN You know your value,
Only when someone else crumbles it...
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN To be street smart it takes respect of a persons ability to control their emotional state and to kno... GARY F EVANS... Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out an... CAMILLE SWEENEY His name was engraved deep in the core of her heart..
- Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN I will lock my feelings up and throw the key in the ocean till someone comes, ready to hunt the dept... ANSHIKA JAIN It's funny.. I still love the person who made me lose my ability to love...
-Anshika. ANSHIKA JAIN Its like I'm a broken mirror.. Don't try to pick my shattered pieces or you will hurt yourself ....
... ANSHIKA JAIN The story was so broken that no one could ever find the missing pieces....
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN Their story was just a chapter to him...
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We know that the whol... RON BLOOM Obviously, this is a continuation of dollar woes. DAVID BLOOM I mean, I have a great job. I get to dress up and become somebody else, especially when it's someone... ORLANDO BLOOM Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their childre... ALLAN BLOOM It really isn't about winning the medal for me. JEREMY BLOOM I'll have a week to put the cleats on and get ready. Is a week enough? I don't see why not. I've bee... JEREMY BLOOM I'm humbled to be here, and I'm very excited. The sport of football has been a huge passion of mine ... JEREMY BLOOM Well, this is America, so obviously football is the Big Daddy in this country. It gets the most atte... JEREMY BLOOM I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself. ORLANDO BLOOM Being referred to as a hunk or a heartthrob makes me nervous, but it's flattering. But I'm m... ORLANDO BLOOM