#adapt

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views. ↗

— Edith Wharton

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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge. ↗

— Patrick White

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I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species. ↗

— George C. Williams

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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#adapted #ball #control #endeavors #game

What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle. ↗

— James Wolcott

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We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing. ↗

— Don Young

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I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here. ↗

— Steve Yzerman

#also #always #any #deserved #feel

What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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