#log

The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind. ↗

— Simon Wiesenthal

#danger #greatest #greatest danger #hatred #mankind

People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic. ↗

— Lee Westwood

#bit #golf #golfers #much #people

When you get a group of kids together, especially boys, the psychology of those kids requires that they find a weak kid or a sensitive kid or a soft kid. ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#find #get #group #kid #kids

It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined. ↗

— Gilbert White

#district #examined #find #full #greatest

Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's true heart lay...cats were all about using people ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#animals #cats #cats-being-needed #dogs #dogs-and-cats

Sometimes you want someone to accept our apology so badly. But all that we can do is hope they will, and that we can move on if they don't. ↗

— Lolalola

#forgiveness #friends #life #relationship #forgiveness

First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago. ↗

— Carl Wilson

#ago #associate #avid #become #blogs

All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person. ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#admiration #american #canadian #counseling #encouraging-and-empowering-girls

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God? ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#could #evolution #god #had #important

Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#actually #almost #biologists #due #evolution