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"Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man."
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"The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind."

"Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone."

"For a man, the optimal evolutionary strategy is to disseminate his genes as widely as possible, given his few minutes (or, alas, seconds) of investment in each encounter. It all makes simple evolutionary sense, since a woman invests a good deal of time and effort -a nine month long, risky, strenuous pregnancy, in each offspring. Naturally she has to be very discerning in her choice of sexual partners."

"We must throw out the old, fear-based thought-forms and evolve, and begin to live as higher beings of compassion."

"As we transcended and transformed from Neanderthal so will future humans transcend to a new level of consciousness and transform into a super human or homo-cosmicus."

"There is nothing ideal in Nature, because it was not created by some sort of ideal Almighty Being with perfect peerless craftsmanship. Nature as it is, has evolved through millions of years out of the biological drive for survival."

"The reality however is that in order to make progress in life, we have to embrace discomfort."

"It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man."
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"The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye."

"What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too."

"The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent."

"When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband."

"Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man."

"The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man."

"The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky."
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