Gavin de Beer Quotes
A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable to ontogeny. The other is the historical descriptive aspect which is unravelling lines of phylogeny with ever-increasing precision. Each of these aspects may make suggestions concerning the possible significance of events seen under the other, but does not explain or translate them into simpler terms.Gavin de Beer
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My views are very fluctuating. I have very contradictory takes on the subject. Dating is easier, while marriage is hard work. You see your friends having early divorces, and on the other hand, you see your parents having a successful marriage.
Kangana Ranaut -
Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.
Jacki Weaver -
America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.
Rand Paul -
With some people there is such a thing as the habit of betrayal.
Han Suyin -
A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system.
W. Edwards Deming -
There has always been cheating going on in pitching and hitting. As far as cheating, using a wooden bat and flattening the hitting surface, that has always been going on. ... It is usually discovered in pretty good time.
Bob Feller
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J-Hope always tries to cheer us up, and I'm so grateful. Actually, I like to call him a new leader for the group.
Kim Nam-joon BTS -
I don't know about you, but when they first introduced bottled water, I thought it was so funny, I was like "Bottled water! Haha, they're selling bottled water! ... I guess I'll try it. Ah, this is good, this is more watery than water. Yeah, this has got a water kick to it."
Jim Gaffigan -
For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.
Confucius -
There's such a dark cloud over this, it's disappointing. As a kid, you wondered who'd be the next guy to pass Ruth or maybe Aaron. We're talking about a great, great player in Barry Bonds, but there's that black cloud, and I just think we all wish it could go away.
J. M. Roberts -
But thy eternal summer shall not fade.
William Shakespeare -
I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The wisdom that living brings, since I got a telegram from the God of simple things.
Don Henley The Eagles -
Anybody with money can put on a KISS show, but they can't be KISS.
Paul Stanley Kiss -
Cultivate an appreciation and passion for books. I’m using passion in the fullest sense of the word: a deep, fervent emotion, a state of intense desire; an enthusiastic ardor for something or someone.
Cassandra King -
Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished
W. S. Gilbert -
Brushing up on your short game at the practice area is fine and good, but taking it with you to the golf course - when your score is really on the line - is another story.
Ernie Els
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A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable to ontogeny. The other is the historical descriptive aspect which is unravelling lines of phylogeny with ever-increasing precision. Each of these aspects may make suggestions concerning the possible significance of events seen under the other, but does not explain or translate them into simpler terms.
Gavin de Beer