Ernst Mayr Quotes

To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade the issue.

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• Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.

  

  Kate Voegele
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• I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
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• I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.

  

  Fawn Hall
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• We don't grow older, we grow riper.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.

  

  Aaron Hill
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  • You
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• I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.

  

  Ian Anderson
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• Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that.

  

  Larry Elder
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• But love like that doesn’t just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there’s always a little love left, underneath.Yes. Horrible, isn’t it?

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Hate
  • Powerful

• Every time you go away, I always sayThis time it's goodbye, dearLoving you the way I doI take you back, without you I'd die dearKnowing I love you so.

  

  Hal David
  • Time
  • Die
  • Goodbye

• What makes the Pastor-CFR Council on Foreign Relations plan remarkable is that those who would abolish America are out of the closet. The penultimate step to world government, a North American Union built on the model of the European Union, to one day merge with it in a World Union of Nations and Peoples, is before us on the table.

  

  Pat Buchanan
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  • American
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• But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.

  

  Larry Wall
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• Prayer ardent opens heaven.

  

  Edward Young
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• The consciousness of being betrayed is to the collective consciousness of a sacred group what a certain form of schizophrenia is to the individual…it is a form of madness.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• I find it is a bad habit to look at social media before bed, so I try to read something on paper - not on my phone - before I go to bed.

  

  Katrina Lake
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• Money is nothing really worth squabbling about. This is what puts people six feet under. You know, I don't need it.

  

  Burt Shavitz
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• I know London very well.

  

  Clemence Poesy

• You never see a French person eating alone.

  

  Pierre Dukan
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• I really want to be known for my work. That sounds like such a... cliche, and I've thought about how else I can say it to make it sound less hackneyed. But that's what it comes down to... I know people are interested in these things.

  

  Delroy Lindo
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• I'm not always as disciplined as I should be. I don't sit down and write every day, but I should.

  

  Jenny Lewis

• And now because you are His child, live as a child of God; be redeemed from the life of evil, which is false to your nature, into the life of goodness, which is the truth of your being. Scorn all that is mean; hate all that is false; struggle with all that is impure Live the simple, lofty life which befits an heir of immortality.

  

  Frederick William Robertson
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Art
  • Criticism

• Throw not my words away, as many do;They're gold in value, though they're cheap to you.

  

  John Clare
  • Words
  • Value
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• It is clear that the players decided against the strike due to pressure and intimidations, and this should make all of us reflect for a moment.

  

  Carlos Gonzalez
  • Pressure
  • Players
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• To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade the issue.

  

  Ernst Mayr
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