#vol

The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door. ↗

— Martin McGuinness

#british government #door #fein #government #guns

There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers. ↗

— David O. McKay

#crying #did #especially #fathers #freedom

The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me. ↗

— Norman McLaren

#art #evolving #fascinated #me #process

NO!” The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #j-k-rowling #voldemort #death

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question. ↗

— Kenneth R. Miller

#answered #argument #basically #depends #design

We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a ‘higher answer’– but none exists ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#evolution #inspirational #life #nature #science

We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population. ↗

— Duong Van Minh

#avoid #bloodshed #ceremony #discuss #government

I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce. ↗

— Meredith Monk

#actually #allows #always #artist #because

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#belonging #demanded #few #freedom #i

When I was very young the world was flat and colorless but as I grew older it acquired shape, first round, then a sphere and as I grow old it is infinite in all its dimensions and scope. ↗

— Sesame April

#evolution #life #world #age