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But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.


Alan Shepard


#become #began #better #bit #candidates

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.


Lewis Thomas


#altruism #because #been #confer #continuing

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.


Joseph Wambaugh


#both sides #emotional #jury #looking #manipulate

Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.


Michael Pollan


#natural-selection #beauty

I have selective hearing.


Eddie Van Halen


#i #selective

I'm still reading some scripts and I model as well, so I'm still doing that. But I don't want to do like just anything so we're being really selective about the stuff I'll do.


Kim Smith


#anything #being #doing #i #just

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

You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment.


Stephen Breyer


#bottom line #case #decide #different #feel

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






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