Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.
Something deep within us drives accurate messiness into the neat channels of canonical stories.
If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.
Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.
Nature is what she is - amoral and persistent.
Darwin's principle of natural selection leads to the prediction that the proper way to analyze any evolutionary development is to see the new features as adaptive to environments. And that's a perfectly good principle. The problem is that there are many evolutionary biologists who view everything that happens in evolution as directly evolved for adaptive benefit. And that just doesn't work. Whenever you build a structure for adaptive reasons, the structure is going to exhibit properties that have nothing to do with adaptation. They're just side consequences.
The Earth is moving right now.
I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me.
It's an old story; it's as old as our history. The difference between Democrats and Republicans has always been measured in courage and confidence. The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak, are left behind by the side of the trail. The strong, the strong they tell us, will inherit the land. We Democrats believe in something else. We Democrats believe that we can make it all the way with the whole family intact, and we have more than once.
Once I moved to Chicago and started trying to get acting jobs, I just tended to book more things that were comedically based than anything else. I never had the preconceived notion, "I will be a comedic actor. " I just thought, "I'll go into acting and see what kind of work I can get. "