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Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.


Erich von Stroheim


#because #between #call #certain #comes

We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.


Irving Babbitt


#away #degree #disciplinary #drift #expansion

I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.


Julie Walters


#daughter #family #got #her #i

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree...The difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection , though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered subversive of the theory.


Charles Darwin


#confessions-of-the-darwinists #conjecture #darwin #darwinism #darwinist-confessions

I know there was a time, when our country was new, when the assignment of these numbers helped organize something that was on the brink of not existing. But we are no longer that country. We are so much more now.


Kiera Cass


#change #kiera-cass #the-elite #the-selection #change

These are the woes of Slaves;/They glare from the abyss;/They cry, from unknown graves,/"We are the Witnesses!


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


#henry #henry-wadsworth-longfellow #inspirational #longfellow #poems

It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.


Michael Behe


#biological #century #could #discovered #elegant

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.


Luther Burbank


#blessings #crossing #fulfillment #great #highest

Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.


Charles Van Doren


#aristotle #describe #ethics #happiness #his

Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it's not where you start but where you end up.


Kevin Johnson


#always #award #because #being #end






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