Konrad Lorenz Quotes
Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of behaviour patterns which relates to more than a few minor details, we assume it to be caused by parallel adaptation to the same life-preserving function.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
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In the space between stimulus (what happens) and how we respond, lies our freedom to choose. Ultimately, this power to choose is what defines us as human beings. We may have limited choices but we can always choose. We can choose our thoughts, emotions, moods, our words, our actions; we can choose our values and live by principles. It is the choice of acting or being acted upon.
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Above all, what I learned from my Sensei was how to wait. I believe I learned the meaning of waiting on one foot. If I understand anything in this life, it is how to wait. It is not an answer. But for me it is everything.
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If ever there was a time for true bipartisanship, it is today.
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Taking the company private was not the easiest thing I've done in my life.
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Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of behaviour patterns which relates to more than a few minor details, we assume it to be caused by parallel adaptation to the same life-preserving function.
