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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a su

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesnt need its brain anymore so it eats it! – Daniel Dennett

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Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently – the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs good tricks. – Daniel Dennett

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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it. – Daniel Dennett

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In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past. – Daniel Dennett

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Home is any four walls that enclose the right person. – Helen Rowland

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I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me. – Rosie ODonnell

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I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and its in the public arena, but that doesnt entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here. – Francesca Annis

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