August Weismann Quotes
The world has been evolved, not created: it has arisen little by little from a small beginning, and has increased through the activity of the elemental forces embodied in itself, and so has rather grown than come into being at an almighty word.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.
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I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.
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I'm a mac and cheese freak. Homemade or from the blue box, I'm not picky!
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When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.
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Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.
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The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.
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I lost $6 in Atlantic City once and said, 'Never again.'
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Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.
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She seemed to have neither sense of fullness nor taste, and would often combine foods in manners that struck Blue as problematic. She didn't believe in telling people how to live their lives (well, maybe a little), but it was hard to stand by and watch Gwenllian spread peanut butter on a cold hot dog.
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A poem should be a part of one's sense of life.
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I was honoured recently to accept the position of president of Mizrachi U.K. I did so because I believe our eternal challenge as Jews is both straightforward and also awash with complexity: How to sanctify the innovations of the modern world in accordance with our eternal Jewish values?
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When I was a kid, I was at a bowling alley and I ran into a soda machine. I still have the scar on my right eyebrow obviously.
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Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.
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Every movie I've done, when they cast me, they knew I'd probably do it for a toffee apple and a Frappuccino.
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I am powerless against the great magazines - I am an artist, and I will always be that.
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The world has been evolved, not created: it has arisen little by little from a small beginning, and has increased through the activity of the elemental forces embodied in itself, and so has rather grown than come into being at an almighty word.
