Foundation For Shamanic Studies Quotes & Sayings

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. — E. O. Wilson

Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest you want them all to land in hell together, and right away. — Mark Twain

I've come to believe that the word 'disabled' is a misnomer. 'Disabled' implies that you are broken beyond use. No longer functional. I'm quite abled. — Ilona Andrews

Happily, solving problems by intensifying production and increasing complexity does not always yield catastrophic results. — Joseph A. Tainter

I never understood until this happened to me was that if one's always going to new places, one never stops long enough to see the beauty in the old places. — Laura Lee Guhrke

I'm still learning. I've never done a digital project before. And I'm pretty sure I did things to the software that weren't supposed to be done. — Don Hertzfeldt

measured his own length in the Flemish mud and skidded forward, all elbows and knees; then he jerked erect again, breathless, desperate and angered, at the heart of a sudden — Peter Tonkin

The first interview I went on I got at age 5. It was a commercial for First Federal Bank. — Erin Moran

True enough, Osama bin Laden is dead and other al-Qaeda leaders have joined him. But, the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi is a brutal reminder that radical Islamic terror groups have not disappeared and certainly are not dormant. — Bob Beauprez

It would be a mistake ... to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages ... The Laws of Moses as well as the laws of Rome contributed suggestions and impulse to the men and institutions which were to prepare the modern world; and if we could have but eyes to see ... we should readily discover how very much besides religion we owe to the Jew. — Woodrow Wilson

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off. — Val Kilmer

If someone has a better idea, be willing to listen with an open mind and keep quiet until they complete their thoughts. — Blair Singer

But there's a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn't near you. — Jodi Picoult