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"I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it."
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"I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason."
"Human reason in its pure use, so long as it was not critically examined, has first tried all possible wrong ways before it succeeded in finding the one true way."
"That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done."
"I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason."
"Religion is a distraction from true education."
"For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating."
"Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto."
"What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it."
"Refusing to listen to him any longer, Julian backs up. 'Whenever you realize working together is in Summer's best interest, come find me, Boy Scout. Until then, I'll just pretend you don't exist. Then he walks away.Gage glares at Julian's retreating form. His hand scrapes through his hair as he fumes. A guttural roar of rage crawls up his throat, and he kicks the sand.Damn him and his stupid logic. He's right. And Gage knows he's right. But that doesn't mean he has to like it."
"Emotion,' she told him, 'is not a reliable guide for our words and actions.'There you are wrong,' he said. 'Deep, true emotion is our surest guide. We make our greatest mistake when we allow our heads to rules ours hearts.'Emotion is our human weakness.,' she said, 'reason our strength.'And love,' he said, 'is our destiny."
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"Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned."
"Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself."
"Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences."
"Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction."
"Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man."
"Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms."
"Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely."
"Darwin (1859) recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular."
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