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• Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways.

  Ernst Mayr

  Unique, Opportunity, Pathways

  Ernst Mayr (1988). “Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist”, Harvard University Press

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• The most helpful piece of advice that I could give to anybody is to select a charity, or create a charity, that you really feel passionate about and if you do, don't give up.

  Evelyn Lauder

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Advice

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• We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.

  Clarence Benjamin Jones

  Leadership, Character, Men

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• The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.

  Orson Welles

  Jobs, Night, Yawning

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• Forcing your employees to follow required steps only prevents customer dissatisfaction. If your goal is truly to satisfy, to create advocates, then the step-by-step approach alone cannot get you there. Instead, you must select employees who have the talent to listen and to teach, and then you must focus them toward simple emotional outcomes like partnership and advice....Identify a person's strenths. Define outcomes that play to those strengths. Find a way to count, rate or rank those outcomes. And then let the person run.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Running, Simple, Emotional

  Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (1999). “First, Break All The Rules: What The Worlds Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperament, commitment to judicial neutrality and commitment to other more constant values as to which there is general consensus.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Philosophy, Commitment, Thinking

  "Justice For Sale (Update)". "Bill Moyers Journal", billmoyers.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Haven't got a girl, but I can wish. So I'll take me down to Main Street and that's where I'll select my imaginary dish.

  Dean Martin

  Girl, Wish, Main Street

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• Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Soul, Film Music, Bodies Of Water

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I challenge youth to cooperate with parents who are concerned about your reading and your viewing. Be concerned yourself about what you take into your mind. Young people, you would never eat a meal of spoiled or contaminated food if you could help it, would you? Select your reading and viewing carefully and in good taste.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Reading, People, Parent

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• I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, Issues, Doubt

  Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.41, Penguin

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• In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beauty, Beautiful, Believe

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• In the coming elections if you cannot decide whom to select, use the vote to reject.

  Kisan Baburao Hazare

  Use, Election, Vote

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• Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Math, Space, People

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• Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, God, Names

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.41, 谷月社

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• I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.

  Diana Ross

  Song, Heart, Reality

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• The constitution ought to secure a genuine militia and guard against a select militia. ...All regulations tending to render this general militia useless and defenseless, by establishing select corps of militia, or distinct bodies of military men, not having permanent interests and attachments to the community ought to be avoided.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Military, Men, Community

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• That instability is inherent in the nature of popular governments, I think very disputable … A representative democracy, where the right of election is well secured and regulated & the exercise of the legislature, executive, and judiciary authorities, is vested in select persons, chosen really and not nominally by the people, will in my opinion be most likely to be happy, regular and durable.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Exercise, Thinking, Government

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• I am determined to elect a president of our choosing this year and one who will be deeply indebted, and who will recognize his indebtedness. Since I am willing to go beyond all limitations on this, I think we should be able to select a candidate and a party who knows the facts of political life....If we select Nixon, then he, I know for sure knows the facts of life.

  Howard Hughes

  Party, Thinking, Years

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• If you were to buy a [BMW] 6-series, I recommend you select reverse when leaving friends’ houses so they don’t see its backside.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Bmw, House, Leaving

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• Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out.

  Fred Reed

  Law, America, Machines

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• There's lots of incredible roles out there that I'd love to tackle, but there's a select group of actors I find myself gravitating towards, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sean Penn or Daniel Day-Lewis - real transformational actors.

  Derek Magyar

  Real, Groups, Roles

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• If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own

  Herodotus

  Men, Bidding, World

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• The conventional wisdom in our business is that you have to grow and keep moving to survive.  We never grew, always stayed tiny, and it serves us very well over the years, allowing us to pick and choose projects, and keeping our financial independence from our clients.  We actually have a rather good track record, because we do select projects carefully. Most of our ideas don't eat dust but glimpse the light of day because we find it much more helpful to spend some serious time and effort before we start working on a project, rather than suffer through it afterwards.

  Stefan Sagmeister

  Moving, Dust, Years

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• The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

  Olof Palme

  Rights, Government, People

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• The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is what science is all about. But historically science has done exactly the opposite. Through multiplication upon multiplication of facts, information, theories and hypotheses, it is science itself that is leading mankind from single absolute truths to multiple indeterminate, relative ones.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Opposites, Purpose, Done

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