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.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Technology
  • Growth
  • inspirational

• You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • People
  • Good
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Men
  • Children
  • American

• Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Music
  • Day
  • Play

• Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Better

• 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.

  

  Randy West
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Lucky

• It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Age
  • Past

• Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Hope
  • Mercy

• We have this day restored the Sovereign to whom all alone men ought to be obedient. He reigns in Heaven, and with a propitious eye beholds his subjects assuming that freedom of thought, and dignity of self-direction which He bestowed on them. From the rising to the setting sun, may His kingdom cum

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • May
  • Freedom

• 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.

  

  Walter Scott
  • World
  • Age

• Give good thoughts (nature’s character builder) - you will be good and the world will have good thoughts for you.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • World
  • Good
  • Character

• Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Night
  • Evil
  • Sleep

• Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist. .

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Goals
  • Adversity

• 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.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Life
  • World
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• Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Life

• 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.

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • People

• 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.

  

  Clara Shih
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• My mom would walk through a fire pit for me, and I'd do the same for her.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • Mom
  • Fire

• Social change comes through people.

  

  Paul Watson
  • People

• Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this.

  

  Plutarch
  • Earth

• Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.

  

  John Stuart Blackie
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Drama

• CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Going
  • Minute
  • Fired

• Whenever you talk about Chinese dragons, emperors, palaces, concubines - they conjure up a whole colonial argle-bargle that has nothing to do with historical reality.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Chinese

• 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.

  

  Niles Eldredge
  • Earth
  • Humans
  • Limit