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Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persi

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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Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television. – Lewis Thomas

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War
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Lewis Thomas
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The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves most things, in fact, are better in the morning. – Lewis Thomas

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great
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At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future. – Lewis Thomas

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Future
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Other Quotes from
cool
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On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really. – Anthony Daniels

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cool

In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd. – Jennifer Garner

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cool

Im taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. Its very collaborative, arty, fun and cool. – Margaret Cho

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cool

Justin Timberlake is everything, and what more could you want in a person? Hes funny. Hes cute. Hes great. He just understands. I get him and he gets me, and thats cool. – Britney Spears

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cool

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The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm. – Josh Billings

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Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion. – Allan Bloom

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Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. – Mark Twain

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Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth. – Mikhail Gorbachev

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