Source: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 2. The replicators
“Special things have a way of surviving.”
Source: The World According to Bertie
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Context: Whether you are interested in moksha, liberation, freedom, transformation, you name it, you are interested in happiness without one moment of unhappiness, pleasure without pain, it is the same thing. Whether one is here in India or Russia or in America or anywhere, what people want is to have one without the other. But there is no way you can have one without the other. This demand is not in the interest of the survival of this living organism.