Pavsa Quotes & Sayings

Behavioral genetics confirms that aggressive tendencies can be inherited, and that gives natural selection material to work with in shifting the average violent tendencies of a population. — Steven Pinker

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors. — Tristan Tzara

You know I'll be right there with you if you want to go to Germany. Or if you don't, I'll be right there too." "I know," I said. "You always are." "And I always will be." Hot tears pricked at my lashes. I blinked. Because she was wrong. Because she would get older and so would I. She wouldn't always be there. Whether I still needed her or not, she wouldn't always be there. — Laekan Zea Kemp

History as well as life itself is complicated
neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency. — Jared Diamond

One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.' — Randall Munroe

What did I know about whatever it was that others obviously saw in me? how would I know if I went around with my stomach pressed into the dust of the ground. Truth has no witness? being isn't knowing? If a person doesn't look and doesn't see, does the truth exist anyway? THe truth that doesn't transmit itself even to those who can see. Is that the secret of being a person? — Clarice Lispector

How can you make me feel this way? I barely know you. — M. Leighton

The benefits of our increasingly digital lives have been accompanied by new dangers, and we have been forced to consider how criminals and terrorists might use advances in technology to their advantage. — James Comey

And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject. — John Locke