“Biologists have a label for the neat tricks that enable living things to take care of the four Fs of survival—feeding, fighting, flight, and… reproducing. The label for these traits is "adaptation."”
The Atheist's Guide to Reality (2011)
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Part 1 “Four Classical Arguments”, Chapter 2 “The Argument from Design (and Some Creationist Calculations)” (p. 19)
Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up (2008)
Source: Street Lethal (1983), Chapter 16 “Warrior” (p. 239)
“Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.”
Source: Queer Notions, A Fabulous Collection of Gay and Lesbian Wit and Wisdom, 1996, p. 18.
“The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label.”
Letter to Norman Thomas (25 September 1951) http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAsocialismP.htm
Context: The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to "End Poverty in California" I got 879,000. I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use attacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them.
“There are no words for it. The important thing is to drop the labels.”
"Labels", p. 73
Awareness (1992)
Context: The important thing is not to know who "I" is or what "I" is. You'll never succeed. There are no words for it. The important thing is to drop the labels.
“Remember, nothing in life comes labeled, YOU are the labeler.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 74
“I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.”
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