#superior

Planetologist call it the conundrum of unforeseen ecological consequence. I call it the whack-a-mole rule of human meddling. She clasped both hands like a child hammering. WHACK! We change something here. Oops, that makes another problem pop up there where we didn't expect it. WHACK! So, we whack that mole. Oops! We're so smart that we're a menace. ↗

— Robert Buettner

#human-nature #human-superiority #humanity #humans #meddlers

Yes, there are in me the makings of a very fine loafer, and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow. I often think of those lines of old Goethe: 'Schade, daß die Natur nur einen Menschen aus dir schuf; Denn zum würdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff.' ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#goethe #humanity #men #poetry #potential

As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence. ↗

— John Strachan

#been #bishop #commanding #conception #eloquence

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior. ↗

— Marilyn French

#feel #inferior #men #must #seem

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#ape #cannot #draw #likewise #man

I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe. ↗

— David Mamet

#back #beliefs #could #describe #exercise

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#between #difference #fairly #good #infinite

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#center #even #eventually #famous #front

We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience. ↗

— Major Owens

#better #consistently #cost #end #experience

Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#fiction #generally #goes #heroines #heros