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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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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I'm a bit of a hippie.
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Roger [Corman] didn't actually hire me, though. I was hired by AIP [American International Pictures], the studio that made the picture, which was Sam Arkoff and Jim Nicholson. It was a great learning experience for me, because not only did I work on the script, but they hired me back to go on location when they were making the movie, to write new scenes and so forth.
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America may be the land of the free, but there are definitely more ignorant people there. Most of the population are semi-retarded.
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But Doc knew that was the key to successful lying. People judged what other people would do by what they themselves would do. You could tell a hell of a lot about a man by what he assumed others got up to. If you're looking for a thief, bet on the man who's always accusing his neighbors.
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The nice clean intimacy which we now so admire between the sexes is sterilizing. It makes neuters. Later on, no deep, magical sex-life is possible.
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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.
