Loving behavior contributes to the group at the expense of the individual. Competition contributes to the survival of the individual at the expense of the group. In the garden of life, some people are more like flowers, and other people are more like weeds.
Marilyn vos Savant
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Life is short, and that's why, I don't test people; because we all fail tests sometimes, but that is... C. JOYBELL C. I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever ANNE FRANK all of a sudden he will catch sight of something wonderfully beautiful in its nature; that, Socrates... PLATO She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Survivors aren't always the strongest; sometimes they're the smartest, but more often simply the luc... CARRIE RYAN May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr... QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as... QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters... QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life: “In a slum somewhere in India As... THE PROPHET OF LIFE Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi... THE BOOK OF THE DEAD When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t... THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ... ANGELA CARTER The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo... KATHERINE VUCICEVIC No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro... J.R.R. TOLKIEN We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want... PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world. PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you... KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th... ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ... ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker. ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes. ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment. ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.' ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha... ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person. ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me... ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au... ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about. ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media. ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive. ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ... ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken. ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows. ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real... ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha... ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don... ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one. ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. KING JAMES I My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them... MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina... WALLIS SIMPSON PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea... WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w... WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave. WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me. WALLIS SIMPSON A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe... WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain. WALLIS SIMPSON You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance. WALLIS SIMPSON I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers. WALLIS SIMPSON For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. WALLIS SIMPSON Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting. WALLIS SIMPSON You can never be too rich or too thin. WALLIS SIMPSON A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. KING SOLOMON
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GEOFFREY VOS The deal says, you stick to computers and we'll stick to music. This is a simple case. They advertis... GEOFFREY VOS They were the people who were supplying computer systems, computer software, computer hardware. That... GEOFFREY VOS If you click on the disco section - which I'm sure would be your lordship's immediate choice - you'l... GEOFFREY VOS That advertisement is as flagrant violation of this agreement as it is possible to imagine. GEOFFREY VOS Apple Computer can go into the recorded music business in any way they want. What they cannot do is ... GEOFFREY VOS So when minister Erwin claims that there will not be thousands of jobs lost, he is just playing with... CHRIS DE VOS It's definitely been postponed to May 1. CHRIS DE VOS A culture of secrecy is like the bad stench created by cat pee—it is very difficult to get rid of. PIERRE DE VOS Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature. MARILYN MONROE There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to ackn... MARILYN MANSON When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed. MARILYN MANSON Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like ... MARILYN MANSON Art gives people a reason to be alive. MARILYN MANSON If you lose emotion, and you gain it back, you realise that hate and love are very important to dist... MARILYN MANSON The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in... MARILYN MANSON Finding someone who's willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to ... MARILYN MANSON I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to conve... MARILYN MANSON I like to make people think differently than they did before I walked in the room. MARILYN MANSON When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on lo... MARILYN MANSON If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business. MARILYN MANSON If you lose who you are, what do you have? MARILYN MANSON Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself. MARILYN MANSON I like zombie movies. I like 'The Walking Dead;' I like the metaphor of it, simply because w... MARILYN MANSON Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fi... MARILYN MONROE Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've ... MARILYN MONROE I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me. MARILYN MANSON Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds th... MARILYN FRENCH The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important ... MARILYN HACKER Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunitie... MARILYN FERGUSON When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest... MARILYN MANSON Depending upon my activities, I sleep between five and ten hours every night. I sleep in an extra-wi... MARILYN MONROE Yes, I'm reckless and sometime express no concern for my own well being, and I express a misanth... MARILYN MANSON Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about ... MARILYN MANSON My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back ... MARILYN MANSON A smart girl leaves before she is left. MARILYN MONROE How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl. MARILYN MONROE First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself ... MARILYN MONROE An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. MARILYN MONROE To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on ... MARILYN MONROE A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many. MARILYN MONROE I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. lik... MARILYN MONROE It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit... MARILYN MONROE There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it w... MARILYN MONROE I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent. MARILYN MONROE A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. Sh... MARILYN MONROE Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never comple... MARILYN MONROE Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened... MARILYN MONROE I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time. MARILYN MONROE I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since. MARILYN MONROE I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly. MARILYN MONROE The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn&... MARILYN MONROE I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way,... MARILYN MONROE I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. MARILYN MONROE It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feel... MARILYN MONROE Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and w... MARILYN MONROE The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves. MARILYN MONROE Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't... MARILYN MONROE What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course. MARILYN MONROE It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired. MARILYN MONROE Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him t... MARILYN MONROE I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay! MARILYN MONROE Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection. MARILYN MONROE I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen. MARILYN MONROE Friends accept you the way you are. MARILYN MONROE I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous. MARILYN MONROE Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive m... MARILYN MONROE We should all start to live before we get too old. 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