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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Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.
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If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
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It is staggering that in the 21st century, half of the world's population - that's three and a half billion people - own no more than a tiny elite whose numbers could all fit comfortably on a double-decker bus.
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As you recover, you will find yourself letting go of many of your negative beliefs. You will discover that many of the so-called truths you were raised with and forced to believe are not truths at all. With this perspective, you will come to see, for example, that the names you were called as a child are simply not true. You are not ‘stupid,’ ‘lazy,’ ‘ugly,’ or a ‘liar’. You can discover just who you really are. You can let go of your pretenses and masks and discover who the real person is underneath.
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I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way.
