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selfish sacrifice benefits
Richard Dawkins What you cannot have is a gene that sacrifices itself for the benefit of other genes. What you can have is a gene that makes organisms sacrifice themselves for other organisms under the influence of selfish genes.
selfish generosity design
Richard Dawkins Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
selfishness disguise inspection
Richard Dawkins It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
selfish evil design
Richard Dawkins If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless good fortune. Such a universe would be neither evil nor good in intention ... The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
selfish earth rebel
Richard Dawkins We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
selfish eye sight
Richard Dawkins Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.
selfishness care mental-health
Roz Chast It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it.
selfish compassion people
Rose Macaulay How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently.
butterfly spirit feels
Vanessa Hudgens I feel like the spirit of the butterfly transferred itself to me.
butterfly shade lasts
Virginia Woolf The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain. He is as tough as catgut and as evanescent as a butterfly's bloom.
butterfly
Zhuangzi Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly...
butterfly writing simple
Vladimir Nabokov My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.
butterfly chasing four hectic kids led people
Russ Miller The Connecticut Butterfly Association led the butterfly tagging, and we had a lot of people there. At one time, we had 40 people chasing butterflies; it was a little hectic for the monarchs having four kids chasing one butterfly. We used up our 100 tags.
butterfly thinking giving
Novak Djokovic It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.'
butterfly events gulf higher hurricane lead markets mexico oil outside prices room shows today version vulnerable
Larry Goldstein It's a new version of the butterfly effect. A hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico can lead to higher prices around the world. That's how vulnerable oil markets are today to events outside of our control. And it shows how little room there is for errors.
butterfly hands dying
Jodi Picoult I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.
butterfly people beetles
Eva Green Some people collect butterflies - I love beetles.
eagles turkeys want
Warren Buffett If you want to soar like an eagle in life, you can't be flocking with the turkeys.
eagles flock good laws people
Benjamin Franklin Where carcasses are, eagles will gather, And where good laws are, much people flock thither
eagles bon-jovi
Niall Horan I've got my old favorites like The Eagles and Bon Jovi.
eagles study found
Lou Reed But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.
eagles wings kites
Chinua Achebe Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
eagles coward tears
C. S. Lewis They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?
eagles crow quality
Chanakya A person becomes great not by sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. A crow does not become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building.
eagles world wrens
William Shakespeare The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.
eagles band harmony
Brian Miller The 'Crue' is not the hardest band to cover. There are no harmonies like the Eagles.