Evolve Quotes - Page 17

• What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it must be levity.

  Tom Robbins

  Attitude, Opposites, People

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.138, Bantam

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• And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. Or human beings will all catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be the best animal.

  Mark Haddon

  Zoos, Believe, Animal

  "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time". Book by Mark Haddon, 2003.

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• If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who invented it to communicate high-level abstract thoughts. What's unique about language is that the creatures who develop it are highly vulnerable to being eaten.

  Temple Grandin

  Animal, Unique, Brain

  Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson (2009). “Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.

  Eric Foner

  Past, Journey, Discovery

  Eric Foner (2003). “Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World”, p.14, Macmillan

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• Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.

  Sarah Dessen

  Family, Divorce, People

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.193, Penguin

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• I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We're made to grow.You either evolve or you disappear.

  Tupac Shakur

  Growth, Want, Disappear

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• The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.

  Marlon Brando

  Love, Sensitive, Scabs

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• Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Humanity, Mind

  Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Lectures on Literature”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of His own glory, He would not have permitted it to enter the world.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Evil, Would Be, World

  Charles Spurgeon (1998). “The Power in Praising God”, Whitaker Distribution

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• If we do not believe within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve into something higher.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Believe, Feelings, Higher

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• I am not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well. More important than that, I feel an endless need to learn, to improve, to evolve, not only to please the coach and the fans, but also to feel satisfied with myself. It is my conviction that here are no limits to learning, and that it can never stop, no matter what our age.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Important, Age

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• Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo.

  Wade Davis

  Past, Essence, Survival

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• Today, women have access to the technological capacity to do anything to our bodies in the struggle for "beauty", but we have yet to evolve a mentality beyond the old rules, to let them imagine that this combat among women is not inevitable. Surgeons can now do anything. We have not yet reached the age in which we can defend ourselves with an unwillingness to have "anything" done. This is a dangerous time. New possibilities for women quickly become new obligations.

  Naomi Wolf

  Struggle, Age, Done

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• Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because, um - they're no longer relevant. We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?

  Bill Hicks

  Revolutionary Ideas, Church, Thumbs

  "Filling Up the Hump". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 1993.

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• So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.

  Gregory Maguire

  Magic, Stories, Erode

  Gregory Maguire (2010). “What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy”, p.115, Candlewick Press

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• Love is never static, but always evolving. Love is simultaneously random and ordered, so intangible and yet a part of everything, and when we attempt to limit it or categorize it, we get into trouble.

  James Van Praagh

  Love Is, Limits, Trouble

  James Van Praagh (2011). “Watching Over Us: What the Spirits Can Teach Us About Life”, p.45, Random House

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• But that day I was anxious. I was nervous and worried, uneasy and distracted. I paced around and never felt settled. I didn't care for the sensation, yet I realized it was possibly a natural progression of my evolving soul, and therefore I tried my best to embrace it.

  Garth Stein

  Soul, Care, Nervous

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines.

  Po Bronson

  Life, Passion, Volunteer

  "What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question". Book by Po Bronson, November 29, 2005.

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• He definitely does what a partner is supposed to do, that is, evolve you.

  Erykah Badu

  Doe, Partners

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• What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.

  Orson Scott Card

  Lying, Lakes, Order

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.183, Macmillan

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• There's nothing perplexing to me about a leafy shrub evolving out of the big bang, but that the post office exists because carbon exploded out of a supernova is a phenomenon so outrageous it makes my head twitch.

  Steve Toltz

  Office, Bangs, Shrubs

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”

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• The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would accept marriage on it's thirteenth-century terms. Marriage survives, in other words, precisely because it evolves. (Though I suppose this would not be a very persuasive argument to those who probably also don't believe in evolution).

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Believe, Silly, People

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• This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.

  John Green

  Running, Land, Feelings

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.140, A&C Black

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• Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as long as you have breath in your body, to take the hard way–and work, work, work to build yourself into a rich, continually evolving entity.

  Sylvia Plath

  Long, Goal, Trying

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.47, Anchor

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• No, I don’t have to tell a soul about this, I promised myself. When you are a kid, you don’t know yet that a secret, like an animal, can evolve. Like an animal, a secret can develop a self-preserving intelligence. Shaglike, mute and thick, a knowledge with a fur: your secret.

  Karen Russell

  Kids, Animal, Self

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