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Richard Dawkins : Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have a chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do. # Sex # Understanding # Selfishness

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Charles Lamb : " How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty, " # Sex # Understanding # Selfishness

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Issey Miyake : " Design is not for philosophy -- it's for life. " # Sex # Understanding # Selfishness

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David Hockney : " Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. " # Sex # Understanding # Selfishness

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William Butler Yeats : " The official designs of the Government, especially its designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage, may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors of national taste. " # Sex # Understanding # Selfishness

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Sir Terence Conran : " Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist. " # Sex # Understanding # Selfishness

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Philip Caldwell : " Why kick the man downstream who can't put the parts together because the parts really weren't designed properly? " # Sex # Understanding # Selfishness

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William Butler Yeats : " Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste. " # Sex # Understanding # Selfishness

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Stephen Bayley : " Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers -- the rich. " # Sex # Understanding # Selfishness

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D H Lawrence : " Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. " # Sex # Understanding # Selfishness

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Elwyn Brooks White : " The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances. " # Sex # Understanding # Selfishness

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Robert E Ornstein : " And, most important, we have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments. " # Sex # Understanding # Selfishness

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Richard Dawkins: " The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference." # Life and Living # Love # Death and Dying

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Richard Dawkins: " We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment." # The future # Truth # Language

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Richard Dawkins: " The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." # Atheism # Love # Character

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Richard Dawkins: " Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense." # Choice # Love # Belief

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Richard Dawkins: " Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose." # Age and Aging

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Richard Dawkins: " If we want to postulate a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding evolution, that deity must have been vastly complex in the first place. The creationist, whether a naive Bible-thumper or an educated bishop, simply postulates an already existing being of prodigious intelligence and complexity. If we are going to allow ourselves the luxury of postulating organized complexity without offering an explanation, we might as well make a job of it and simply postulate the existence of life as we know it!" # Science and Scientists # Education # War

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Richard Dawkins: " What worries me about religion is that it teaches people to be satisfied with not understanding." # Worry # Teachers and Teaching # Religion

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Richard Dawkins: " We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here." # World # Science and Scientists # Poetry and Poets

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Richard Dawkins: " Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. Revealed faith is not harmless nonsense, it can be lethally dangerous nonsense. Dangerous because it gives people unshakeable confidence in their own righteousness. Dangerous because it gives them false courage to kill themselves, which automatically removes normal barriers to killing others. Dangerous because it teaches enmity to others labelled only by a difference of inherited tradition. And dangerous because we have all bought into a weird respect, which uniquely protects religion from normal criticism. Let's now stop being so damned respectful!" # Children # Courage # Change

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Richard Dawkins: " It's obvious that in an intelligent educated audience such as this university, I stress this university. Who saw fit to give them accreditation?" # Wives # Education # Intelligence and Intellectuals

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