Peter Singer Quotes

The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all.

Peter Singer

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GodBetterUnderstandingEvolution

It is not scientifically possible to accurately predict the outcome of an action. To suggest otherwise runs contrary to historical experience and the nature of war.

Jim Mattis

NatureExperienceWarActionPredict

I felt that, in some ways, my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject matter. But no one wants to read a book based on good health, a happy upbringing, a long marriage.

Jim Crace

GoodMarriageGood HealthHeartMe

My interest in science started quite early. My earliest school recollection, from age 6, is actually of mathematics, realizing that one could fill an entire page with digits and never come to the largest possible number, so I saw what was meant by infinity.

John C. Mather

AgeScienceMathematicsSchoolEarly

When Obama gutted Medicare by taking $717 billion out of it, the Romney plan does not do that. The Ryan plan mimicked part of the Obama package there, the Romney plan does not. That's a big difference.

John Sununu

PlanDifferenceOutBigPackage

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

Simone Weil

AttentionFullestEcstasyHighest

Though I knew from the beginning that I deserve to win the show, it is a different world inside the 'Bigg Boss' house. It was a journey with a lots of emotional ups and down.

Shilpa Shinde

JourneyBeginningBossWinWorld

It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies.

Tom Hanks

DoingMoviesHardJustStaying

I know without our fans and the devotion of our fans we wouldn't be here. I don't mean to put them down, but I'm just stating a fact that it is hard to play to people that see you all the time and it takes a lot of fun out of it in some ways.

Roger Daltrey

TimeFunPeopleYouDownPlay

Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.

Mike Krzyzewski

EgoWantIndividualCollectiveEven

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Joseph Addison

LifeNatureGriefManEnoughCruel

I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.

Dennis Prager

ChangeGreatI AmMindIdeasFive

There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands.

Corey Taylor

GoodGreatSongHandsYouSometimes

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