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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But if you are a conceited brown-nosing shit-bag, you will be allowed to do what ever you want, and you will be handed your higher rank.
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From time immemorial war has always caused widespread displacements of population. Driven abroad by the destruction of their homes, fleeing from the neighbourhood of the battlefields or from the threat of enemy occupation, floods of refugees have always taken to the roads in search of a haven which is never easy to find.
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Just keep being true to yourself, if you're passionate about something go for it. Don't sacrifice anything, just have fun.
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Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.
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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.
