Quote by Lewis Thomas
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictabl

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself. – Lewis Thomas

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The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. – Lewis Thomas

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Language
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I dont want to be reincarnated, thats for sure. When youve had rewarding experiences in your life – a loving family, friends – you dont need additional reassurances that youre going to do something with a new cast of characters. Id just as soon pass. – Lewis Thomas

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Family
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Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of ones own genes in the generations to follow. – Lewis Thomas

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The right of nature… is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life. – Thomas Hobbes

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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings. – Denis Diderot

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Nature

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. – Thomas Aquinas

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Nature

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. – Joyce Kilmer

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Nature

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success. – Arthur Helps

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And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins. – Thomas Keneally

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