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Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. – Richard Dawkins

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There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you cant prove that there arent any, so shouldnt we be agnostic with respect to fairies? – Richard Dawkins

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. – William James

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We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!…. his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. – Charles Dickens

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There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mothers age. – Benjamin Spock

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