"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it
everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of … every
saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote
of dust suspended in a sunbeam... There is perhaps no better
demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of
our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more
kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot,
the only home we've ever known." Carl Sagan, from "Pale Blue Dot."
“I'm suggesting we call sex something else, and it should include
everything from kissing to sitting close together” "Where there is
lasting love, there is a family." Shere Hite.
"…Most religions
offer no valid mechanism by which their core beliefs can be tested and
revised, each new generation of believers is condemned to inherit the
superstitions and tribal hatreds of its predecessors." Sam Harris
"Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares...”
“If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its
horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that
however deeply you have seen, you have only scratched the surface, you
will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore
imagine...
The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us..." both by Daniel Dennett
"The mind is a neural computer..." "Sex and excretion are reminders
that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called
rational animal has a desperate drive to pair up and moan and writhe." -
both by Steven Pinker
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