#chi

Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of living nature, was antagonistic to the idealism that reigned in biology. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#appearance #became #biology #clear #concerning

That boundless freedom of childhood is so wonderful. ↗

— Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

#childhood #freedom #wonderful

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances? ↗

— Charles Ives

#composer #his #how #nice #some

If the woman in my life, the one that I felt I loved enough to want to marry, loved my children, I'd know then that her love for me was deeper than I could hope for. ↗

— James MacArthur

#could #deeper #enough #felt #her

Charity work is very important to me and gives me an opportunity to give back to my community. I've always been a big supporter of many different charities, have donated millions of dollars to them, and it just feels great to do and be able to help others, especially children. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#always #back #been #big #charities

The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess. ↗

— Jeanette MacDonald

#children #guess #having #having children #i

I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#could #desires #dimensions #experiences #i

When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#believe #center #child #comes #consciousness

I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#comfort #comfort zone #different #doing #fussy

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#devil #failure #god #long #man