#table

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it! ↗

— Daniel Dennett

#brain #cling #coral #eats #finds

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay. ↗

— Robert Blair

#decay #makes #maturity #passed #point

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#classified #considered #considering #history #quite

I never want to be a showoff or attention getter or something that, truthfully, is kind of repulsive to me, but I get uncomfortable. ↗

— Selma Blair

#get #i #kind #me #never

The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals. ↗

— Edward Blake

#classes #commercial #crimes #criminals #developed

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. ↗

— Voltaire

#history #indeed #misfortunes #more #nothing

I began acting at age eight, but if you don't stay on your game then people pass on you. Being on a show, it's a little easy to get comfortable, so I'm trying to get back on it. I'm taking some acting classes and watching movies, and I'm just trying to stay up with other actors. ↗

— Jason Dohring

#age #back #began #being #classes

If we can put a man on the moon, we can make pantyhose comfortable. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#make #man #moon #pantyhose #put

I was trying to convince all these men to try to make a product that they didn't even wear! Or if they did wear them, they were not admitting it! There was the problem right there. No wonder their hosiery was so uncomfortable. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#convince #did #even #hosiery #i

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable. ↗

— Heather Donahue

#entertainment #how #illness #into #live