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simple difficult science-and-religion
Richard Dawkins Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
simple needs individual
Richard Dawkins A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right.
simple chinese handcuffs
Rick Riordan Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple.
simple men simplicity
William Morris Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.
simple needs loud
Rebecca Stead Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.
simple thinking routine
Roald Dahl I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
simple blind-belief curiosity
Richard Dawkins The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
simple cities people
Robin Williams We Americans, we're a simple people . . . but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities.
self
Peter Roebuck It can be absurd, cantankerous, self-destructive and pompous, but it is never crass
self forgotten truest
Richard Paul Evans In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.
selfishness disguise inspection
Richard Dawkins It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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.
self errors intuition
Ryan Hall The question I try and ask myself when I consider whether or not to train more is what is my body craving and what is my body ready to absorb? Sometimes pushing harder is not the answer. It takes self control, confidence, and intuition to know when to train and when to rest, but when in question error on the side of being over rested.
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.
self criticism desert
Tryon Edwards Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
self mountain way
Reinhold Messner If you have a high-way on Everest, you don't meet the mountain. If everything is prepared, and you have a guide who is responsible for your security, you cannot meet the mountain. Meeting mountains is only possible if you . . . are out there in self-sufficiency.
perfect spill wear white woman
and City I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
perfectly-normal understanding social-behavior
Richard K. Morgan Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.
perfect remember printer
William S. Burroughs The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.
perfect
William Shatner I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.
perfect courses kirk
William Shatner We were basically one and the same, although Jim [Kirk] was just about perfect, and, of course, I am perfect.
perfect tuning teeth
William Gibson His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.
perfect decision taste
Tucker Max I take a lull from my CamelBak and choke at its potency. It tastes like bad decisions. It's perfect.
perfect bombs paint
Tupac Shakur Picture perfect, I paint a perfect picture bomb the hoochies wit' precision, my intentions to get richer.
perfect love-relationship has-beens
Tracy McMillan Ask anyone who has been in a love relationship for a while: nothing is perfect.