Ernst Mayr Quotes
It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.
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The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again.
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At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory.
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If you love something and if you're committed and diligent - the things happen!
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we have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.
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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.
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I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something that is lost.
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Find a pile of gold and sit on it.
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Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself.
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Anxiety is a natural thing humans have. You know, that's how we evolve. That's how we are, you know, we think things through. Sometimes my mind just thinks things through a lot.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
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As a disciplined African head of state, I will follow the decisions of the Economic Community of West African States and the African Union on how to resolve the Ivorian conflict.
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So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.
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We got a new song called 'Ashes in Your Mouth,' and it is NOT about a joint falling apart.
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No, this trick won't work. The same trick does not work twice. How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
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A lot more variables in golf. But the biggest thing is like just routine. Like I think that's the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players, is for me I really rely on my routine every single day when I get ready for games and how I prepare.
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A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
