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• I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Mother, Nice, Surprise

  "Marathon mum". Interview with Duncan Mackay, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2007.

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• My main point about films is that I don't like the adaptation process, and I particularly don't like the modern way of comic book-film adaptations, where, essentially, the central characters are just franchises that can be worked endlessly to no apparent point.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Character, Way

  "Alan Moore: 'Why shouldn't you have a bit of fun while dealing with the deepest issues of the mind?'". Interview with Stuart Kelly, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2013.

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• Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Order, Demand, Littles

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• I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Chance, Wanted

  "Legendary Comics Writer Alan Moore on Superheroes, The League, and Making Magic". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. February 23, 2009.

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• Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Animal, Men, Accustomed

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• Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Hands, Ideas

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• The more I study nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force with the conclusion, that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired through each part occasionally varying in a slight degree but in many ways, with the preservation or natural selection of those variations which are beneficial to the organism under the complex and ever-varying conditions of life, transcend in an incomparable degree the contrivances and adaptations which the most fertile imagination of man could suggest with unlimited time at his disposal.

  Charles Darwin

  Beautiful, Nature, Men

  "On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects: And on the Good Effects of Intercrossing".

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• I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

  Scotty Bowman

  Sports, Hockey, Winning

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• Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm.

  Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

  Learning, Saint, Benefits

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• I'm very interested in buildings that adapt to changes in climatic conditions according to the seasons, buildings capable of responding to our physical and psychological needs in the way that clothing does. We don't turn on the air-conditioning as we walk through the streets in high summer. Instead, we change the character of the clothing by which we are protected. Layering and changeability: this is the key.

  Glenn Murcutt

  Change, Summer, Character

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• Life is challenging for everyone. If someone can believe that he's a sovereign in his tiny domain, it's just an adaptation to life.

  George Meyer

  Believe, Challenges, Tiny

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.

  Laozi

  Triumph, Principles, Mastery

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• Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.

  Trofim Lysenko

  Practice, Theory Of Evolution, Agriculture

  Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1948). “Soviet Biology: Report to the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences”

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• The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education.

  Maria Montessori

  Exercise, Essence, Environment

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• The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.

  Stephen Sondheim

  People, Opinion, Stage

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• Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

  Ernst Haeckel

  Law, Connections, Branches

  ernst haeckel “the riddle of the universe”

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• Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Book, Want, Film

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• After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.

  Terry Southern

  Collectors

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• If you write an original, its like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, its like the oil wells on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again - or something like that.

  Brian Helgeland

  Writing, Fire, Oil

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• A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors. There is no adaptation or universal applicability in men, but each has his special Talent, and the mastery of Successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practiced.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Successful, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Essays”, p.287, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Adaptation is one of the great advantages to being born and bred in Jersey. We're simply not bested by bad air or tainted water. We're like that catfish with lungs. Take us out of our environment and we can grow whatever body parts we need to survive. After Jersey the rest of the country's a piece of cake. You want to send someone into a fallout zone? Get him from Jersey. He'll be fine.

  Janet Evanovich

  Country, Air, Cake

  Janet Evanovich (1999). “Three To Get Deadly: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• In fast moving markets, adaptation is significantly more important than optimization.

  Larry Constantine

  Moving, Important, Programming

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• Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Principles, Guarantees, Changing Environment

  Stephen Jay Gould (1992). “Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History”, p.45, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

  H. G. Wells

  Pain, Time Machine, Grindstone

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Time Machine”, p.45, eKitap Projesi

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• Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change

  Nicholas Stern

  Challenges, Climate, Response

  Nicholas Stern (2007). “The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review”, p.601, Cambridge University Press

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