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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.
selfish machines earth
Richard Dawkins We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
selfish helping-others men
Richard Whately A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
machines remember computer
Richard Dawkins If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.
machines bigs humans
Woody Guthrie All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.
machines used type
Rod Serling I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else.
machines use
Winston Churchill I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you.
machines body obsolescence
Vikas Swarup God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.
machines popularity richness
Wynton Marsalis My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.
machines prefer treated
F. Stone I prefer live dealers, ... but the machines treated me all right today.
machines littles thread
Neal Stephenson I don't like sewing machines. I don't understand how a needle with a thread going through the tip of it can interlock the thread by jamming itself into a little goddamn spool. It's contrary to nature and it irritates me.
machines mars world
Jose Saramago What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
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L. Lionel Kendrick The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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Roger Powell He's a star player, but he's down to earth and he's very receptive to the young guys, ... He talks to us. He encourages us, gives us compliments, gives us positive criticism. He's been great.
earth man merely son spirit-and-spirituality strand weave web whatever
Chief Seattle Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
earthquake swear
Al Aqsa We swear there will be an earthquake of retaliation,
earth known
Mike Mills I'd known Elliot for a while, ... He was kind of 'off the Earth' on the heroin thing.
earth great salt
Mark Sulser He was the salt of the earth. He was so loyal. He was a great one.
earth care weight
Rube Goldberg And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed.
earth want lord
Truman Capote You don't understand. You've never hated anybody. No, I never have. We're allotted just so much time on earth, and I wouldn't want the Lord to see me wasting mine in any such manner.
earth tricks physicist
Rex Stout There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.