Superorganism Something For Your Mind Quotes & Sayings

Even a little practical working familiarity with cattle goes a long way in Africa, but how many international relations studies include this? — T.K. Naliaka

The information superhighway is a dirt road that won't be paved over until 2025. — Sumner Redstone

It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence. — Oscar Wilde

Time rolls his ceaseless course. — Walter Scott

He who would be free,' says a fine thinker, 'must not conform.' And authority, by bribing people to conform, produces a very gross kind of over-fed barbarism amongst us. — Oscar Wilde

In a war one is either living like a prince or a vagabond. I — Susanna Clarke

I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.' But sure, criticism can sometimes still get to me. Some things are so malicious, they knock the wind out of you. — Melissa McCarthy

African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures. — Malcolm-Jamal Warner

We were trying to increase the conflict that was already happening ... we felt that we would take the conflict to so high a level that some change had to come. — Huey Newton

New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party. — Carol Moseley Braun

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. — W. Clement Stone

First rule of motherhood, dearie: men are screw-ups. Learn it now and you'll be a whole lot happier. — Neal Shusterman

Superorganism. A biologist coined that word for our great African ant colonies, claiming that consciousness and intelligence resided not in the individual ant but in the collective ant mind. The trail of red taillights stretching to the horizon as day broke around us made me think of that term. Order and purpose must reside somewhere other than within each vehicle. That morning I heard the hum, the respiration of the superorganism. It's a sound the new immigrant hears but not for long. By the time I learned to say "6-inch Number 7 on rye with Swiss hold the lettuce," the sound, too, was gone. It became part of the what the mind would label silence. You were subsumed into the superorganism. — Abraham Verghese

[W]atching ducks land on a lake in Arkansas in the winter is about the closest to Heaven as you can find on this earth ... and as someone who believes, according to my faith, I will go to Heaven when I die, I am pretty sure that there is duck hunting in Heaven! — Mike Huckabee

By the time I learned to say "Six-inch number seven on rye with Swiss hold the lettuce," the sound, too, was gone. It became part of what the mind would label silence. You were now subsumed into the superorganism. The — Abraham Verghese