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Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail
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“It’s hard to admit you want something in this world. Seems like we’re all just waiting for our dreams to be crushed.”
― Dig Two Graves
― Dig Two Graves
“Women who gave birth earlier, when the infant’s brain and head were still relatively small and supple, fared better and lived to have more children. Natural selection consequently favoured earlier births. And, indeed, compared to other animals, humans are born prematurely, when many of their vital systems are still under-developed.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“The Bible decrees that ‘If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife’ (Deuteronomy 22:28–9).”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“So it should not come as a surprise that millions of pious Christians, Muslims and Jews manage to believe at one and the same time in an omnipotent God and an independent Devil.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“He said it with the air of a man who always demands the best, and then settles for what he can get.”
― Top of the Heap
― Top of the Heap
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