#why

While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#anything #case #christians #defines #design

Now I know why tigers eat their young. ↗

— Al Capone

#i #know #now #their #tigers

We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years. ↗

— Lois Capps

#committed #country #future #future generations #generations

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#benefit #community #every #fiction #good

The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name. ↗

— Drew Carey

#change #fresh #fresh start #head #i

We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could have taken another path. We are essentially a beautiful fluke, as are the millions of other species with which we share this planet. Our cells are composed of atoms and dust particles from distant galaxies, and from the billions of living organisms that inhabited this planet before us. ↗

— Wendy Mass

#meaning-of-life #science #why-we-are-here #beauty

I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#been #got #gullible #had #i

Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#one thing #orchestra #problem #thing #very

Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#concept #into #pool #private #private property

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke. ↗

— Willa Cather

#ghastly #god #hands #i #i think