Ernst Mayr Quotes
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We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention.
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St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
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You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.
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I have lots of clothes that I don't wear because I'm bad for impulse buying. They sit in my cupboard looking forlorn, but if I haven't worn something for a couple of months, I usually realise that it would be much better off in one of my friends' wardrobes.
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Anyone who wants to be part of the political process should adopt values that are compatible with democracy.
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In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.
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It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?
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Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture.
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We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.
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Commanders-in-chief make really tough decisions.
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All we can do is evaluate what we see in practice.
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We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.
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My rule is always if you keep your basics classic. You can add seasonable and very trendy stuff and always look modern and updated, but if you're questioning something and its expensive, err on the side of classic.
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If people leave your coalition, whose fault is it? It's your fault. You have to build a coalition that's attractive to people.
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The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.
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I'm very much bigger than I was, so what? It's not really fatness, it's development.
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Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.
