Quotes About Adaptation

Sex does not need to be primordial in order to be legitimate. Civilization doesn't just repress our original sexuality; it makes new kinds of sexuality. And new sexualities, including learned ones, might have as as much validity as ancient ones, if not more.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself

Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and if they will not adapt to me, I adapt to them.

I myself am more ready to distort a fine saying in order to patch it on to me than to distort the thread of my argument to go in search of one. [A]

Chacun appelle barbarie ce qui n'est pas de son usage.

Meus próprios costumes, que não chegam a distar uma polegada dos costumes correntes, mesmo assim me tornam de certo modo intratável e insociável para o meu século. Não sei se me desgosto sem razão com o mundo em que vivo, mas sei bem que não teria razão se me queixasse de ele se desgostar comigo tanto quanto eu com ele.

Hikayemi saati saatine yazmam gerekiyor. Az sonra deÄŸiÅŸebilirim.

EÄŸildiÄŸim yere sürükleniveriyorum: a??rl???m beni ondan yana düÅŸürüyormuÅŸ gibi.

All along the street, keys rattle in key-holes as each shop's ornate metal clothing is stripped away...It's as if, having unlocked the chastity of shutters and doors, they can't see the point in maintaining any shred of modesty.

reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one's attitude. Of

There's always places where things aren't so bad: cheaper accommodation, cheaper food, cheaper fuel. You go there and it's OK for a while. Then it stops being OK and you get the hell out.

Anyway, when sophisticated technology fails, primitive technology steps in to do the job.

Prefer what is positive and multiple, difference over uniformity, flows over unities, mobile arrangements over systems. Believe that what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.

The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

Faced with these mutations, we no doubt need to be invent-ing unimaginable novelties, far outside the obsolete frameworks that still format our behaviors, our medias, and our projects—all of which are being drowned in the society of the spectacle.

It is the end of the era of knowledge.

Education is ever-changing, even though some of our practices aren't evolving as quickly as our students are.

As the scholar Mark Singleton writes, from the fifteenth century until the beginning of the nineteenth century

It's not supposed to work that way, her brother said. Marilyn just looked at him. She didn't think he was right about that. She thought there were a lot of different ways that things could work.

Miss Thorne said no more. Poor boy, she thought, away from his loving home and now dumped with an irritable old man. Tom

But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet.

On the first day of the end of the world, Michelle got out of bed, walked into the kitchen, and smacked some roaches

For an animal, the past is largely a waste of precious resources, since it gives them little evolutionary advantage. But simulating the future, given the lessons of the past, is an essential reason why humans became intelligent.