"It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides……" — Colson Whitehead
"It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect."
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33 Quotes by Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead has 33 quotes on this site.
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We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.
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As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some…
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A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.
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Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.
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A society manufactures the heroes it requires.
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Isn't it great when you're a kid and the world is full of anonymous things? Everything is bright and mysterious…
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Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let…
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Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American. ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch…
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New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a…
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In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Betamax. The year before,…
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It had been a humdrum couple of days, reaffirming his belief in reincarnation: everything was so boring that this could…
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There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to be…
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More Evolution Quotes
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
— Isaac Asimov
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As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of…
— David Attenborough
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Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like…
— David Attenborough
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
— Marcus Aurelius
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There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary…
— Edward Bach
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God's first creature, which was light.
— Francis Bacon
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Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?
— Stephen Baldwin
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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
— Henry Adams
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In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
— Bela Bartok
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If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
— Milton Berle
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Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is…
— Annie Besant
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