#select

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Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It's not accurate or fair to compare the job they do.


Dennis Moore


#apples #compare #comparing #everyone #fair

I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central.


Lucy Powell


#candidate #central #honoured #i #labour

I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what risk the nations of Europe ran, not so many centuries ago of being overwhelmed by the Turks, and how ridiculous such an idea now is! The more civilised so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world.


Charles Darwin


#eugenics #natural-selection #nazism #racial-superiority #racism

Selective literalism' is another attempt in a very long line of techniques designed and intended to shape God into our own image". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]


R. Alan Woods


#literalism #r-alan-woods #selective-literalism #design

You cannot eliminate a thought by fighting it or trying to block it out. Resisting an unwanted thought only entangles you and drives that thought deeper into your mind, making it even more of a distraction.


Tommy Newberry


#the- #life

Dwelling on your problems doesn’t fix them; it just makes you an expert at them.


Tommy Newberry


#the- #life

It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed.


Ian Mcewan


#mutation #natural-selection #nature

Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals with those genes have, relative to other individuals, greater or lesser reproductive success.


Randolph M. Nesse


#natural-selection #nature

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.


M. H. Abrams


#audible #background #codes #communications #environment

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.


Thomas Bailey Aldrich


#gives #seldom #selects #translation #true