#qualities

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#faith #level #logical #me #organization

The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#baptist #believes #biological #different #evolutionary

Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God. ↗

— Alfred Day Hershey

#god #honor #humans #indeed #justice

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#being #doing #expanding #goes #i

The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities. ↗

— Tom Allen

#ignored #mercury #qualities #rule #special

Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#exaggeration #good #good things #in the past #like

Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#body #combining #mind #olympism #qualities

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#author #book #brings #into #much

Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#accepting #although #around #ball #chasing

These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#code #could #distribution #etc #fascism