Xiahou Ba Quotes & Sayings

The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero. — Ilya Prigogine

The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems. — Billy Joel

The first thing is to lower the level of education, science and accomplishment.1 A high level of science and accomplishment is accessible only to people of high ability, and there's no need for high ability! People of high ability have always seized power and been despots. People of high ability can't help but be despots and have always corrupted more than they have brought benefit; they are sent into exile or executed. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups. — Salman Rushdie

I've spent the first half of my life studying and footnoting everything that can go wrong with the female body - and figuring out how to fix it. I'm dedicating the second half of my life to illuminating everything that can go right with the female body, including teaching women how to truly flourish. — Christiane Northrup

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. — Benjamin Franklin

We need to reject not only outdated fossil-fuel technology, but also an outdated economic system and an outdated corporatist political system. The progressive view is that we are smart enough and ethical enough to not have to be subservient to corporations. We can create our own resilient, localized communities. — Tim DeChristopher

It is half about what you want to be and the other half is what destiny lets you to be. — Ali Gh.

He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here is what he hoped new truths might do for him: enable him to laugh at his troubles, to go on living, and to keep out of the North Wing of the Midland County General Hospital, which was for lunatics. — Kurt Vonnegut