Gabriel

“Darwin’s theory about how species originated doubled as a theory of how they vanished. Extinction and evolution were to each other the warp and weft of life’s fabric, or, if you prefer, two sides of the same coin. “The appearance of new forms and the disappearance of old forms” were, Darwin wrote, “bound together.” Driving both was the “struggle for existence,” which rewarded the fit and eliminated the less so.”
― Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

“The Essence and Character of a People, his overriding message was that Judaism is an “eternal countercultural.” In his book, Hertzberg declares, “Abraham, the first Jew, is the archetypal Jewish character. As the leader of a small, dissenting minority living precariously on the margins of society, he defines the enduring role of the Jew as the outsider. The recurring themes of Jewish history—otherness, defiance, fragility, and morality—are present in his life.”
― Ken Goffman, Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House

“Whereas experts spend more time diagnosing the situation and less time choosing a course of action, novices are inclined to focus on possible actions at the expense of situation assessment.”
― Emma Barrett, Extreme: Why some people thrive at the limits

“Old man’s gotta be the old man, fish has gotta be the fish. You gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.”
― Denzel Washington