Richard Dawkins Quotes

I'm not much given to straight, irony-free hero-worship.

Richard Dawkins

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In our quest to tweet, like, and trend, we have forgotten that brands can be built through advertising. Ads can generate big ideas that can never be trumped by tactics. That is the magic of an ad, and that is what is missing from many ads today.

Jerry Della Femina

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The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.

Max Muller

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Our state's beautiful natural environment is part of why we all love and live in New Hampshire. It is also one of our state's most important economic assets.

John Lynch

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No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.

John Holt

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In Spain, you get seven clear chances a game to receive the ball and shoot. In Italy, you get very few clear balls, and you have to fight everyone to score; that makes you improve and develop.

Alvaro Morata

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Social media demands a lot of us on top of our already demanding lives. So let's disconnect as we need to and renew our interest and ourselves.

Simon Mainwaring

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There's something about Vonnegut's deadpan irony that I really like. And I like Borges' puzzle structure.

Ruth Ozeki

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If you're going to tell stuff, you might as well tell the real stuff.

Ruth Reichl

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The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

Rudyard Kipling

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The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain.

Jay Parini

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Whether it's music, loss of something, loneliness or friendship - if that emotion is heightened in some way and painted to fit in between the covers of 32 pages, that can become a picture book.

Chris Raschka

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In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book.

Nora Roberts

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