“Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on what it is that one wishes to practice. Ferris: Haven't you always placed your self-interest above all else? Rearden: That is what I am doing right now.” SelfActionWishInterestPracticeAtheismHavensDependsRight NowPositive AtheismPracticalsDrsSelf InterestEvaluationDoing Right Author:Ayn Rand
“The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is dependent on it in ways that people haven't even begun to appreciate. Our existence depends not just on its existence, but its stability and its richness.” PeopleWorldWayExistenceEnvironmentHavensDependsAppreciateAround The WorldDependentStabilityLayersOrganismsRichnessLiving OrganismsBiosphere Author:E. O. Wilson
“We don't even know what species are out there, for the most part, particularly when you get down to the microbes and very small invertebrates. They make up the mass of the organisms around us, including the soil we depend on, the soil of cornfields as well as hardwood forests. We haven't taken ecology to the point where we can even make a crude prediction of what's going to happen when we've reduced the living world down to a certain level.” KnowsWorldWellsHappensCertainLevelsTakenHavensDependsMassSpeciesIncludingForestsSoilOrganismsEcologyPredictionsCrudeMicrobesHardwoodInvertebrates Author:E. O. Wilson
“The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes.” MindHumansOrderBrainHavensDependsReachingHuman MindHuman BrainHabitatArtifactsMemesRestructure Book:Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanins of Life Source: Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanins of Life
“Young people need to re-engage with politics. The life of democracy depends on it. We've left it to the stuff shirts, and obviously they haven't been minding the store.” PeopleNeedsYoungLeftStuffDemocracyHavensDependsStoresShirts Author:Emilio Estevez
“At some point, deliberation begins to look more like indecisiveness which then becomes a way of emboldening our enemies and allies and causing our allies to question our resolve. So we shouldn't let one component of this determine our national security here which depends on providing an Afghanistan which denies a safe haven to terrorists as well as stabilizing Pakistan. Those are our two national security interests at stake in Afghanistan.” WayWellsLooksTwoInterestEnemySecurityHavensDependsSafeDetermineDenyTerroristResolveAlliesAfghanistanStakesProvidingNational SecurityPakistanComponentsDeliberationSafe HavenIndecisiveness Author:Rahm Emanuel