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We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here. -- Richard Dawkins
I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live. -- Jasper Fforde
We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written. -- Alberto Manguel
We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives. -- Robert Reich
Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel. -- LaToya Jackson
I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives. -- Iain Duncan Smith
I don't have doctrinaire views about how we should relate to Asia. But novelists reflect the world they live in, and that world propels you, to some extent. I'm a creature of the British Empire, and of the period of transition from the Empire. -- Christopher Koch
I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish. -- Wilford Brimley
I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me. -- Jesse Ventura
I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live. -- Robert Jordan
I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm? -- Nancy Gibbs
We don't have real control over death. You could die of a heart attack, a building could fall on you, you could be in an accident, you could have a fatal disease. So, how should you conduct your life? You just go ahead and live, taking reasonable precautions - like handling the mail more carefully. -- Rudy Giuliani
Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one's brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is. -- Evan Davis
If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die. -- Lord Byron
Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live. -- Salman Rushdie
Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be? -- George Will
The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live. -- Michel de Montaigne

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