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I don't have pet peeves; I have whole kennels of irritation. ↗

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#been #between #brain #brains #closest

After the book took off, I bought a whole new wardrobe. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#book #bought #i #new #off

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#life #made #making #perhaps #sense

I've been doing this since I was 12... I don't want to act much longer; I can't do one thing my whole life. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#been #doing #i #life #longer

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#integrity #lie #reputation #single #whole

Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst - and that brings the whole country down. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#bubbles #burst #concentrating #country #down

The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#assumption #been #brotherhood #grounds #love

I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#big #coaster #construct #first #good

Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad. ↗

— Marvin Hagler

#bad people #because #country #english #english people