#select

The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage. ↗

— Amitabh Bachchan

#audience #cinema #group #little #make

As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#contained #hearings #house #i #intelligence

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on. ↗

— Michael Behe

#best #cannot #century #deal #designed

Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on. ↗

— Michael Behe

#anything #arise #biological #complex #function

You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#people #presidents #respond #selected #top

Obviously I'm young and I'm also Hispanic, two important groups in this election. And I'm confident that I can do a good job in articulating why President Obama ought to be the candidate that Americans select for the next four years. ↗

— Julian Castro

#articulating #candidate #confident #election #four

My show is constantly evolving... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the audience that make it fresh and provide some of the best comic relief. ↗

— David Copperfield

#audience #best #comic #comic relief #constantly

My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career. ↗

— Stacy Keach

#did #hurt #objective #possible #probably

In 1980, a nation in need of change selected Ronald Reagan to restore the shine to a tarnished America. ↗

— William L. Jenkins

#change #nation #need #reagan #restore

David Buss has amassed a lot of evidence that human females across many cultures tend to prefer males who have high social status, good income, ambition, intelligence, and energy--contrary to the views of some cultural anthropologists, who assume that people vary capriciously in their sexual preferences across different cultures. He interpreted this as evidence that women evolved to prefer good providers who could support their families by acquiring and defending resources I respect his data enormously, but disagree with his interpretation. The traits women prefer are certainly correlated with male abilities to provide material benefits, but they are also correlated with heritable fitness. If the same traits can work both as fitness indicators and as wealth indicators, so much the better. The problem comes when we try to project wealth indicators back into a Pleistocene past when money did not exist, when status did not imply wealth, and when bands did not stay in one place long enough to defend piles of resources. Ancestral women may have preferred intelligent, energetic men for their ability to hunt more effectively and provide their children with more meat. But I would suggest it was much more important that intelligent men tended to produce intelligent, energetic children more likely to survive and reproduce, whether or not their father stayed around. In other words, I think evolutionary psychology has put too much emphasis on male resources instead of male fitness in explaining women's sexual preferences. ↗

— Geoffrey Miller

#sexual-selection #family