Ernst Mayr Quotes
I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location.
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Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.
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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
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A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.
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Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting.
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A few minutes?" Feeling suddenly shy, she crossed her arms over her chest. The smile on his face widened, becoming touched with the feral wildness of the cat. It made thinking difficult. "I believed males needed a longer recovery time to mate." "Not this kitty cat." Rising to his feet, he said, "Get ready to play.
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If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely probable that the principle does not exist; that it is a hypothetical body, a gratuitous supposition; indeed, it is in the principles of good logic, not to multiply bodies without necessity.
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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
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What's the use of a high school education if you can't recall it when needed later on?
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Your foods shall be your 'remedies,' and your 'remedies' shall be your foods.
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The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.
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Being up one point is irrelevant. It's like a mile race and you're 50 yards ahead. There's such a long way to go.
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The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.
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Do not speak - unless it improves on silence.
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The South has a way of worshipping appearances - the suburbs are all about presentation and amazing flowers and a beautiful yard and dinner parties that impress people and having the Christmas lights just right.
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The food was donated through various locations. We also purchase a lot of it ourselves. It's 100 percent volunteer.
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The point of our demographics is that we're not having as many children and the population is stagnant, if not declining. So without immigration, we're not going to have the population.
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One of the fundamental challenges of emancipation in South Africa is for the emancipated to avoid the conceptual trap of ascribing to the past of white racism centrality of explanation.
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I love honest men, and a I love a man who is loyal to women.
