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Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your… — Alan Moore
Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half a million generations… — Richard Dawkins
Men respect standards- get some! — Steve Harvey
When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All the standard features… — Sarah Dessen
The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's accessible and eager to please (remember… — Jessica Valenti
I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on… — Jimmy Carter
Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality. — John Twelve Hawks
As far as I can tell, dumping soda on people is the equivalent of â€˜Hi, itâ€™s nice to meet youâ€™ in this part of the… — Nicholas Sparks
The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white - unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt or abject contrition.… — J D Salinger
If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness. — Confucius
There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to… — Karen Marie Moning
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica… — Douglas Adams
It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake… — Ayn Rand
The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with… — Joseph Heller
When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love. — Jordan Belfort
Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all… — Haruki Murakami
Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when… — Stanley Milgram
Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and… — Seth Godin
There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough. — William Stafford
Okay, I'll wear the Bite Me shirt,[...]It'll be my standard response to anyÂone who tries to hit on me." I giggle. "Someone can come up… — Mari Mancusi

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