Ernst Mayr Quotes
Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.
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We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
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In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.
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'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.
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I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.
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Henry James joyously engaged in the act of writing. A good day's writing gave him a sense of strength, of control over chaos, a victory of order and clarity over the confused battle of existence.
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The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you, I'm blackmailing you. A black cat is bad luck. If you're put out of a club, you're blackballed. Angel's-food cake is white; devil's-food cake is black. Good guys in cowboy movies wear white hats. The bad guys always wore black hats.
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Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
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Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.
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Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers...
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What is fruitful alone is true.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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Sacrifice is a demonstration of pure love.
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I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them!
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
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Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.
