#ect

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#because #car #design #designer #engineer

I wanted to be the perfect artist. I'd do three hours of media interviews a day, going to every radio station I could squeeze in. I'd sign autographs after the show until everybody left. ↗

— Clint Black

#artist #autographs #could #day #every

We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations. ↗

— Cofer Black

#collecting #counterterrorism #develop #enable #havens

The Peking man was a thinking being, standing erect, dating to the beginning of the Ice Age. ↗

— Davidson Black

#beginning #being #dating #erect #ice

We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever. ↗

— James W. Black

#debts #friends #had #home #however

Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that. ↗

— Bill Joy

#expect #i #interleaf #like #lot

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious. ↗

— Hugo Black

#made #protect #suspicious #trusting #well

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people. ↗

— Hugo Black

#fathers #founding #founding fathers #free #free press

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#agree #beings #choices #creatures #design

Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#before #bishop #commission #expensive #expressing