Ernst Mayr Quotes
In neither his definition nor the examples illustrating what memes are does Dawkins mention anything that would distinguish memes from concepts.
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The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.
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Put it back in the horse!
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I think it [presidency of Dwight Eisenhower] came too late and I think that he is not on the wavelength of this dreadful time through which we're living.
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Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace' One grand boulevard with trees with one grand cafe in sun with strong black coffee in very small cups. One not necessarily very beautiful man or woman who loves you. One fine day.
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This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.
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One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.
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Your greatest asset is your earning ability, to apply your knowledge, skills in order to get results which others will pay.
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One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.
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This version, or is it a vision, has nothing to do with me,
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If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.
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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
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Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers.
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Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.
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When the need is strong, there are those who will believe anything.
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Taking the scattered and reactive energies of your mind and focusing them into a coherent source of energy for living, for problem solving, for healing.
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Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go to these concerts, and it was fun.
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The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.
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A recursive definition does not necessarily lead to a recursive process.
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I hear it all the time in the street: 'It's the crisp bloke.'
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Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.
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In neither his definition nor the examples illustrating what memes are does Dawkins mention anything that would distinguish memes from concepts.
