Ernst Mayr Quotes
Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants. But this is not what the paleontologist finds. Instead, he or she finds gaps in just about every phyletic series.
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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.
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I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.
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It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the 'fifties' or 'sixties,' as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix.
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Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants. But this is not what the paleontologist finds. Instead, he or she finds gaps in just about every phyletic series.
