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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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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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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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As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design. – Gianfranco Ferre

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I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots. – James Cameron

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design

I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. Theres where I made my name – in design – and theres where Id like to stay. – Jimmy Choo

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I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around. – Giambattista Valli

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History should be written as philosophy. – Voltaire

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But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me. – Peter Davison

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God pulled an all-nighter on the sixth day. – Author Unknown

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The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace. – Ludwig von Mises

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