Evolution: "uber alleles"
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Natural selection, the blind idiot suzerain of evolution.
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Don't try to explain ultraviolet to the blind.
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Life: an arms race to entropy.
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Life is a Darwinian fractal.
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Jamethiel Apologizer is the cue ball of God.
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Ancient Goth: someone who overthrew the Roman Empire.
Modern Goth: a vegetarian pretending to be a vampire.
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Antisocial arrogance is only for those of us who deserve it.
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The ROTC giveth and the ROTC taketh away;
Bureaucratic is the Name of the ROTC.
  -- Psalm of Corinne
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Death is for animals; immortality for gods.  Technology is the means by
which we move from one state to the other.
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We are animals who are becoming gods.  We should expect some of our
higher accomplishments to shock our lower selves.  But we should not let
shock decide our lives or policies.
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"Like a plague of boils, the race of Buffy fans covered the earth.  And each 
one mixed their passion with the blood of another, to make more of their kind."
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You may remember N2 being a triple bond molecule.  It's rather stable, and
breaking it efficiently seems to have eluded plant biochemistry.  Of course,
plants don't even do photosynthesis; they just provide nice houses for those
green bacteria who actually figured it out.

As Lucy Lawless who wasn't Xena didn't quite say on the Simpsons: whenever you
see something magical, a bacterium did it.
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