Quote by Daniel Dennett
Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad ra

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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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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Courage
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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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Home
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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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Happiness
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A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. – Edith Head

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design

While a case can be made for intelligent design, I cant figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesnt prove theres a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature. – Tony Campolo

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design

You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system. – Jamie Dimon

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design

I love design. – Venus Williams

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design

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Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and thats going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and its serious. Its serious business. – Danica McKellar

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Einstein said, “God does not play dice with the world.” Now if the dice would only stop playing God. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Humorous

The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nations fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken. – Ron Fournier

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Failure

The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany. – Klaus Fuchs

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Knowledge