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Mary Midgley has 9 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences…
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When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an…
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The world in which the kestrel moves, the world that it sees, is, and always will be, entirely beyond us. That there…
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What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify…
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None of us can study anything properly unless we do it with our whole being.
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Morally as well as physically, there is only one world, and we all have to live in it
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The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to…
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The trouble with human beings is not really that they love themselves too much; they ought to love themselves more. The trouble…
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Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but…
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No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will…
— Philip K. Dick
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The measure of a superhero is always his nemesis.
— David Lyons
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No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone…
— Erica Jong
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The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our…
— Sam Keen
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History has a Nemesis for every sin.
— Theodor Mommsen
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Fusion has been my nemesis.
— Pete La Roca
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Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.
— Sam Tanenhaus
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Restlessness is my nemesis/ It's hard to just chill and sit still
— Mos Def
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Never sleep in a small tent with your nemesis.
— Tom Chappell
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My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.
— Jennifer O'Neill
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Cancer is the ultimate nemesis that hangs in the balance for one in three women and one in two men in their…
— David Agus
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The difference between fear and panic is knowing what to do. If you have a reliable, effective solution then fear is an…
— Marc MacYoung
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