#selection

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected. ↗

— Louise Brown

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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

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Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

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Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#challenges #discrimination #eliminating #ending #entirely

As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

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The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste. ↗

— David Rockefeller

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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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