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"Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think about what constitutes good or evil. They don't care whether we are happy or unhappy. We're just means to an end for them. The only thing they think about is what is most efficient for them."
"New cells are born everyday and old cells die, but they have neither funerals nor birthdays."
"But cocks aren't supposed to lay eggs... Sahil said, trying to untangle himself. "...they're supposed to fertilise them."
"If you feel depressed for an hour, you've produced approximately eighteen billion new cells that have more receptors calling out for depressed - type peptides and fewer calling out for feel - good peptides."
"Washburn has reported that infant baboons and other young primates appear to be born with only three inborn fears -of falling, snakes, and the dark-corresponding respectively to the dangers posed byNewtonian gravitation to tree-dwellers, by our ancient enemies the reptiles, and by mammalian nocturnal predators, which must have been particularly terrifying for the visually oriented primates."
"A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into; the other functions and faculties may be more godlike, but in point of time they come afterwards. A man dies and is buried, and all his words and actions are forgotten, but the food he has eaten lives after him in the sound or rotten bones of his children. I think it could be plausibly argued that changes of diet are more important than changes of dynasty or even of religion....Yet it is curious how seldom the all-importance of food is recognized. You see statues everywhere to politicians, poets, bishops, but none to cooks or bacon-curers or market gardeners."
"Periods are a period when nature forces prostitutes to go on leave."
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"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."
"He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us."
"Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence."
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