#transit

Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences. ↗

— George G. Simpson

#appear #categories #completely #continuous #every

While railing against the manufactured prerequisites of womanhood or manhood, we need to avoid manufacturing our own prerequisites. The non-operative journey and the objection to it illustrate just one area in which we need to open our thinking to other journeys while expecting that others respect our own. - Mercedes Allen ↗

— Kate Bornstein

#gender-reassignment-surgery #grs #transgender #transition #respect

It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake. ↗

— Bille August

#big #century #come #dream #eve

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#athlete #author #been #biggest #making

I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to relax during a race and how to breathe. ↗

— Donovan Bailey

#consistent #during #how #i #learn

Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work. ↗

— Oksana Baiul

#although #different #different things #difficult #double

It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big. ↗

— Jack Black

#big #film #i #later #play

A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#being #cannot #cooperating #either #fly

I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so that's a decade of my life where I pursued my own ambitions and I thought it was time to rearrange my life to focus on other things. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#decade #eight #focus #governor #had

The good news is that a competitive dollar in the global market and a strong dollar at home are compatible in both the long run and during the transition to a more competitive dollar. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#compatible #competitive #dollar #during #global