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101 " Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment. "
― Paul Watson
102 " There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation--was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement. Where was the wholesome punishment upon which she, Marilla, had plumed herself? Anne had turned it into a species of positive pleasure. "
― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
103 " It is no coincidence that ours is a time afflicted by a widespread sense of attentional crisis, at least in the West - one captured by the phrase ''homo distractus,'' a species of ever shorter attention span known for compulsively checking his devices. "
― Tim Wu , The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
104 " He was onto something. Something huge. It wasn't just how to run; it was how to live, the essence of who we are as a species and what we're meant to be. "
― Christopher McDougall
105 " Hope is itself a species of happiness and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords. "
106 " The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is indeed a species of sagacity-a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy. "
107 " Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords. "
108 " There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds us, which is exactly what we are doing. "
109 " Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekindle excitement over what we've achieved as a species with the space program. We can't afford to regress back to the days of superstition. "
110 " All the things that made us basically nasty, rapacious, competitive as a species are not necessarily hard-coded into whatever passes for the DNA of artificial intelligence. "
111 " When a species wants to tap the collective intelligence of a population, they don't take a poll; they don't take a vote. They form a real-time system. "
112 " Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities. "
113 " As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge. "
114 " Well I think on a simple ecological level that the diversity of this planet is important for our survival, that all of our different cultures, people are important to the health of the whole the same way that a species of animal should be saved and at a simple ecology level. "
115 " It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of pliers, it will eventually blunder into science, technology, and radio. "
116 " The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline. "
117 " We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy. It's just not in usable form yet. "