Ernst Mayr Quotes
In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.
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Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
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You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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I think India's policy that the openness of trade should be carried through a multilateral process is the right one.
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What we do is entertainment. We entertain people. Sometimes we inspire people, but sometimes we are just a way to fill their time.
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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
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I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.
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Our soldiers and people form one family. United, we may count on victory.
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I envy Jesus because he's dead.
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I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.
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My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.
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I think when you're talking about marriage equality and race, people very quickly start to get into their political corners: their ideology comes to the forefront, and they get into this platform argument that they're used to making, which really doesn't have anything to do with the day-to-day basics of what is being talked about.
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For me, when I grew up, I never really had an outlet when it came to my social surroundings. Even if I had a form of popularity, I felt like I was very limited.
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Remember: if you take bivouac equipment along, you will bivouac.
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I ain’t no hipster, but girl I can make your hips stir.
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What I enjoy the most about all this is the traveling. I love that my job allows me to travel all over the world.
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You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!
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A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.
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I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation.
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Things you believe are baggage in your life.
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One of the problems with the fiasco of suburbia is that it destroyed our understanding of the distinction between the country and the town, between the urban and the rural. They're not the same thing.
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In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.
