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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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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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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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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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My style is kind of eclectic and I dont like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you wont see the same design. – Venus Williams

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Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and thats how I started. – Marc Newson

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Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. – Steve Jobs

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Design can change how you look at yourself. – Ty Pennington

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America doesnt reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances. – Meryl Streep

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Its like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you dont know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. Its like the throw of the dice. – Jim Morrison

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The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object. – George Henry Lewes

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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. – Tom Stoppard

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