#gene

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#amount #been #character #contained #courage

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age. ↗

— Kelly Millar

#any #civilization #down #generation #handed

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#general #impulses #organized #our #preservation

I just want to creatively grow and be inspired. I don't want to do anything generic or dumb. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#creatively #dumb #generic #grow #i

When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#began #experimenting #generational #i #once

Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#almost #been #biggest #considers #games

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease. ↗

— Larry Niven

#aids #along #childhood #come #disease

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up. ↗

— Larry Niven

#i #inspiration #know #pop #up

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness. ↗

— Alex North

#combination #familiarity #hear #i #lack

Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it. ↗

— Edward Norton

#along #care #causes #changing #changing the world