We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are only here because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes.
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Related If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could ... WENDY MASS It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van... SATHESH KUMAR M Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Only the most arrogant, shortsighted, and spiritually bereft of our species would say that, at any c... TIMOTHY WALKER What is the meaning of life…to give life meaning. CLIFFORD COHEN I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably a... JAMES H. ROBINSON We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably a... JAMS HARVEY ROBINSON We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably a... JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON We are here to create, not destroy. VIKTORIJA GRUMBLYTė Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly... GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end... DEYTH BANGER 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL You are worth more than you think you are SOTONYE ANGA We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL We are responsible for ourselves and each other. RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view t... BLAISE PASCAL What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc... CHRISTIAN BOBIN We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer. AKIROQ BROST Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba... DEYTH BANGER Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer... ... Silence doesn't make it... bet... DEYTH BANGER What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar... T.J. KLUNE Through our own hard work and ingenuity, America has spent much of its history as the world's do... EVAN BAYH Aliens have been here for millennium. But they didn't come in spaceships. They came in orange s... ANTHONY T. HINCKS If we're honest, most of us are doing okay. CRAIG GROESCHEL Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are n... HARRY CHAPIN 7.4 Billion and counting. The way we view our own importance as a species and our rights to survival... MANJUNAN GNANARATNAM What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas... AUTHOR UNKNOWN It is true that as people, we tend to remember only the positive. With time, the grim details fade a... COLMAN DOMINGO Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibili... ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibili... ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them... CHRISTINE STEVENS The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability. SETH MACFARLANE Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our... RICHARD DAWKINS All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion o... ANDRE MALRAUX Every little gracious act adds to the quotient of grace in the world - how gracious can you be today... ANGIE KARAN Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK Bill gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Lawrence Ellison are the examples of college dropout billio... HARSHVINRAJ SINGH A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space. ALBERT EINSTEIN It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ... DOUGLAS COUPLAND I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu... JAMES C. DOBSON There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the ... SMEDLEY BUTLER Clearly, we are a species that is well connected to other species. Whether or not we evolve from the... GEORGE M. CHURCH Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our own po... WILLIAM LAW You certainly believe in the power of love. And throughout the series, you see how love shows itself... MOUTASEM ALGHARATI Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves. CRAIG GROESCHEL Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other. SYLVESTER STALLONE All people are, at heart, egocentric. We exist at the center of our own little universes. We believe... PETER DAVID We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but b... JOHN F. KENNEDY The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS The world is drowning in weirdness and lies......and here we are, so used to it that we're actually ... INIO ASANO We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ou... DESMOND MORRIS Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. W... MAUDE ADAMS So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We must constantly remind ourselves that we are the image and likeness of God SOTONYE ANGA Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift-or curse, perh... ELIZABETH GILBERT Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we r... CARL SAGAN We choose to go...not because [it is] easy, but because [it is] hard, because that goal will serve t... JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Only about 3 percent of animal species are monogamous. A couple of penguins, some otters and a few o... OLIVER MARKUS Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-spec... LYNN MARGULIS Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER These protected areas are not only important for the conservation of species they contain, they also... THOMAS BREUER The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,... CRAIG GROESCHEL We are fortunate: we are alive; we are powerful; the welfare of our civilization and our species is ... CARL SAGAN So much of what we try to do is get to a point where the solution seems inevitable: you know, you th... JONATHAN IVE Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give plea... ALDOUS HUXLEY Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Plea... ALDOUS HUXLEY The two groups are clearly vying for a dominant position in energy. The only thing we are sure of is... CHRIS WEAFER So we used to do this thing by Bach that was our own little version of it, and we got it wrong, PAUL MCCARTNEY Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Sometimes we represent our weakness as if it were bad. We don’t think it’s okay to be weak…We ... HENRY CLOUD We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored ... CARL SAGAN It is the observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for ... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out
that there are hundreds, thous... LEO TOLSTOY As human beings we never know where we are in our circle of life. Yet I know you are the one who fil... TIM ANDERSON We send one species to the butcher and give our love and kindness to another apparently for no reaso... MELANIE JOY Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in ... DAN BROWN
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You can't forget where ... BRYSON SUMLIN I have to see where the defense and my linemen are, ... I have to set them up in the right place to ... BRYSON SUMLIN There's a lot of little things I need to work on, ... I have to do a better job showing run fake. Bu... BRYSON SUMLIN Point A to Point Z. BRYSON SUMLIN Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a guy coming, ... I cut left to bring the guy to my block. BRYSON SUMLIN The second home run I thought it was a pop-up. I guess the wind gave me a little help. BRYSON BENDALL It was a good pitch at the knee caps and I got in front and attacked it. I didn't know what a home r... BRYSON BENDALL We knew we could hit him. We just had to get out in front and sit on that first pitch fastball. BRYSON BENDALL The second home run  I thought it was a pop-up. I guess the wind g... BRYSON BENDALL It was a good pitch at the knee caps and I got in front and attacked it. I didn't know what a home r... 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BRYSON TILLER I always laugh when I listen to my old stuff. I was just trying way too much back then. Doing too ma... BRYSON TILLER Those lanes will be constructed during the 2006 construction season. Traffic will remain on the exis... CRAIG BRYSON I grew up with my little brother, and we were raised by my grandmother. I was an insider for real. I... BRYSON TILLER It will help more evenly distribute the east-west traffic in that area. CRAIG BRYSON The lower cost of Chinese goods means we can spend more on other goods and services. JAY BRYSON The good thing about our schedule, you don't want to say the 'classics' don't matter, but we can sti... BRYSON ROSSER This has been a long time coming for us. We first conceived of the project about 10 years ago, and t... CRAIG BRYSON Music is an important factor to a healthy way of living. MAURICE BRYSON Surround yourself with people who value your friendship, rather than those who posed the opposite. MAURICE BRYSON Don't be pigheaded over your successes, but rather educate and inspire others to follow in your foot... MAURICE BRYSON Love is magical, adorable, and challenging. To get the best out of it, you have to live it, feel it,... MAURICE BRYSON In general, a rising rate environment slows down growth, so most companies are not going to go as go... JAY BRYSON Don’t pinch that guy’s ass. He’s a leprechaun. KATHY BRYSON It was never just about the money. KATHY BRYSON She caught you. Therefore she gets your treasure. KATHY BRYSON Are you trying to seduce me or trick me? KATHY BRYSON No one ever said you can’t have world dominance and a little romance too. KATHY BRYSON