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.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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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.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.
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Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.
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Prayer ardent opens heaven.
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Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It is not possible to be a scientist unless you believe that it is good to learn... that it is of the highest value to share your knowledge... with anyone who is interested... that the knowledge of the world, and the power which this gives, is a thing which is of intrinsic value to humanity
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People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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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.
