Niles Eldredge Quotes
There is presumably an upper limit to the carrying capacity of humans on earth—of the numbers that agriculture can support—and that number is usually estimated at between 13-15 billion, though some people think the ultimate numbers might be much higher.
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I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center's initiatives. HTC is an engine behind Houston's and Texas' continued growth.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
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Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.
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Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.
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As I slowly managed to take what I had learned into a transition from contestant to announcer and warm-up, I first had to prove myself on pilots. And as you know, many pilots are taped for each show that is lucky enough to breakthrough to being a series.
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Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!To all the sensual world proclaim,One crowded hour of glorious lifeIs worth an age without a name.
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Give good thoughts (nature’s character builder) - you will be good and the world will have good thoughts for you.
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Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil.
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Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist. .
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Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
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I'll be honest with you: politically, I have no issue with people, but my beef sometimes is with religion at the end of the day.
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The most important thing I've done at work has been to surround myself with amazing people who I trust and empower fully to do stuff better than I could.
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My mom would walk through a fire pit for me, and I'd do the same for her.
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Social change comes through people.
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Too few people understand a really good sandwich.
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I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.
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Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.
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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
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The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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There is presumably an upper limit to the carrying capacity of humans on earth—of the numbers that agriculture can support—and that number is usually estimated at between 13-15 billion, though some people think the ultimate numbers might be much higher.
