#gene

Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

#best #choice #class #education #equal

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#coherent #definite #heterogeneity #homogeneity #incoherent

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#change #coherent #definite #dissipation #evolution

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#anything #back #documentaries #educate #entire

This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#generation #given #growth #hoping #just

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#films #generation #my generation #plays #television

Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens. ↗

— Ronald Steel

#generation #grown #lens #look #looking

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#doing #everyone #generally #interesting #more

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#always #detest #egotism #failure #feeling

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#anything #ashcroft #attack #attorney #attorney general