Ernst Mayr Quotes
Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
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I think I've been a great citizen.
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I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
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I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.
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If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.
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The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.
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I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy.
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I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.
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And it is not repentance that saves me — repentance is only the sign that I realize what God has done through Christ Jesus.
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The arsenal of megadeath can't be rid no matter what the peace treaties come to.
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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
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It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!
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I only performed a song so I could not write an essay. I just enjoyed being around bands, and around musicians, and, I didn't want to be the girl who followed the band around. I love singing, I love performing, but it's never been this goal.
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We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.
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Well it took many years. I started with many ideas, threw them away, started all over again. And eventually it evolved into what you see today at Disneyland.
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The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow. If the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan.
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That's what happens in the world. You get offered superior contracts.
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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We have a process that continually looks back to him for guidance, but it also combines that with a tremendous amount of discovery and invention, as well, because of the demands of the medium and the opportunities of the medium.
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Time is an amazing enigma in which seeds that were planted can turn into a vibrant garden if properly pruned.
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Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, 'Take me home!' And the planet Mars took me home, and I never came back. So I've written every day in the last 75 years. I've never stopped writing.
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Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts.
