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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All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
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In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire the necessary trust and engagement among students' parents and community leaders.
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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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The strength of America is not in Washington.
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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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You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy.
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I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.
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My God, I have almost never believed in you, and yet I have always loved you.
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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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Watch your attitude. I don't mean to sound like so much of an old head, but there is another generation behind me, out there, doing it now. I find that, with the whole hip-hop generation, there's a lot of attitude. Whether it's confidence or arrogance or whichever, I will always say to a young guy, “Nobody wants to work with an asshole.” You know, you can still be a great player. You can still play all of the baddest licks in the world. But if you don't have a good attitude, nobody's going to work with you.
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It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative leap from facts to generalisation, no theoretic discovery in science is made. The poet, on the other hand, must not imagine but reason--that is to say, he must exercise a great deal of consciously directed thought in the selection and rejection of his data: there is a technical logic, a poetic reasoning in his choice of the words, rhythms and images by which a poem's coherence is achieved.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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I'm the female Jay-Z. I never compared myself to other women artists. I compared myself with the best, and the best is Jay-Z.
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Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts.
