Richard Dawkins Quotes

From a Darwinian perspective, it is clear what pain is doing. It's a warning: 'Don't do that again.' If you burn yourself, you're never going to pick up a live coal again.

Richard Dawkins

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I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning.

Joe Mantello

WorkGoodBestBeginningWorldKnow

Over the longer run, advanced economy policy actions that strengthen global growth and global trade will benefit the EMEs as well.

Jerome Powell

GrowthRunWillEconomyOverPolicy

Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

John Marshall Harlan

ConstitutionCitizensKnowsOurNor

America owed its military renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s to Vietnam. Veterans like Norman Schwartzkopf, Colin Powell, Alfred Grey, Charles Krulak, and Wesley Clark returned home angry and ashamed at their defeat and rebuilt all-volunteer, professional armed forces from the ground up.

Michael Ignatieff

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Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

Stendhal

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Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.

Robert Anton Wilson

ProcessUniverseBeyondPointWhole

What is our capability when someone posts a public social media posting that says that they're going to conduct attacks on the United States on behalf of the Islamic State. Why can't we pick up that information and then stop that act of terror?

Michael McCaul

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I'd say that all nations have contact with the truth, and all religions have admirable people.

Jon Voight

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All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

Donna Leon

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Going into a room and saying, 'I'm a black lesbian' - it's a strike against you.

Dee Rees

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The basic idea of 'The Venture Brothers' was taking the world of 'Jonny Quest' and jumping back into 30 years later, seeing how someone who grew up like Jonny - with that kind of space race enthusiasm and disregard for other cultures - would turn out. Dr. Venture is a boy genius who didn't grow up to be what he should have been.

Christopher McCulloch

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We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

Archibald MacLeish

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