Niles Eldredge Quotes
At the core of punctuated equilibria lies an empirical observation: once evolved, species tend to remain remarkably stable, recognizable entities for millions of years. The observation is by no means new, nearly every paleontologist who reviewed Darwin's Origin of Species pointed to his evasion of this salient feature of the fossil record.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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Boxing gave me a path in life. Because of boxing, I learned what I'm capable of achieving if I put my mind to it and how hard work can and will pay off in the end. It gave me confidence and taught me to face fear straight on and dig down deep when times get tough.
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I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.
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The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.
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And without forgiveness, there is never any peace.
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I would say the number one thing with cancer is not to let it scare you because when you are afraid, it destroys your immune system.
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Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.
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I have studied this Book, and I would never even dream of saying I've come to the bottom of the Word of God.
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If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!
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The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.
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The guesses which serve to give mental unity and wholeness to a chaos of scattered particulars, are accidents which rarely occur to any minds but those abounding in knowledge and disciplined in intellectual combinations.
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An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.
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The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.
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Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination is a response to what is going on — a sensitiveness to which outside things appeal. It is a composition of sympathy and observation.
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At the core of punctuated equilibria lies an empirical observation: once evolved, species tend to remain remarkably stable, recognizable entities for millions of years. The observation is by no means new, nearly every paleontologist who reviewed Darwin's Origin of Species pointed to his evasion of this salient feature of the fossil record.
