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“Genes aren’t designed to make us happy. They design us to make more copies of themselves.” quote by Joe Quirk — Download Open image

““Genes aren’t designed to make us happy. They design us to make more copies of themselves.””

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“Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homo habili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we are the only surviving species.”

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Seavilization will be better than civilization, and we have nearly half the world's surface to discover it.

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A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.

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We're going to draw a new map of the world, with French Polynesia as the centre of the Aquatic Age.

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At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.

Richard Dawkins

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The families in positions of great financial power obsessively interbreed with each other. But I'm not talking about one Earth race, Jewish or non-Jewish.…

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Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience.

Daniel J. Siegel

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We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness…

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Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes…

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And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I…

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Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.

Richard Dawkins

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A renaissance in cellular biology has recently revealed the molecular mechanisms by which thoughts and perceptions directly influence gene activity and cell behavior...Energy psychology,…

Bruce H. Lipton

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I always found that kind of hard, and even though Gene Kelly was also a taskmaster, Bobby [Fosse] was tougher.

Debbie Reynolds

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Maksim Chmerkovskiy

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Let's face it, you have to have a slightly recessive gene that has a little something to do with the brain to go out…

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This is a whole new era where we're moving beyond little edits on single genes to being able to write whatever we want throughout…

George M. Church

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