Human enhancement is now being driven by military imperatives, at least in the US, because civilian society is more conservative in its approach. It’s a missed opportunity for a society-wide push to understand and reduce our need to power the brain down for hours every day. Every hour we sleep is an hour we are not working, finding mates, or teaching our children; if sleep does not have a vital adaptive function to pay for its staggering opportunity cost, it could be ‘the greatest mistake the evolutionary process ever made’.
Some people spend all their lives searching for their soul mates.
Ria snorted. “Leo’s pride rarely leaves the plains. What are they supposed to mate? The zebras?
I guess Judd (Apatow) is my soul mate because we have a lot of hard times, and it's great at times, too.
I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.
It really does mean so much when your cast mates, who you respect so much, tell you that you made them laugh.
It’s all a bit of a gamble, mate. That’s all I can promise you. And we never get to see what that other life would have looked like if we don’t take chances.
Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?
It really is considered one of the blessings of previous mates which you could manage being silly with them.
I have wonderful band mates that make music that I'm forced to listen to for hours on end until I come up with verses, and that in itself is an inspiration - they're awesome.
Every club if I am not playing, I leave because I want to play football. All I wanted to do since I was a kid is play football and if I wasn't at a club I'd be playing with my mates on a Sunday. I still come home and play five-a-side with my mates.
It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.
All my mates are at university, and it's a life I haven't had a chance to enjoy, so it's great to turn up and sample a bit of it.
I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for ugly women.
I don't really go out to clubs, but if I did, I'd just want to go rock out with my mates or whatever.
The elephant, the huge old beast, is slow to mate
I'd like you to make a commitment to me as well. Will you be my mate?
Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate.
I was always Luke because I had blond hair, and my mate Stu was Han. Han was the cool one. The Jedi were never the cool ones.
I haven't had any bad jobs. I was a hairdresser before and that's it. I still cut my family and mates' hair when they want a trim. If I go up to Scotland to see my mum, I know she'll say, 'Bring your scissors!'
