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• The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring, variation, and heritability) and one syllogistic inference (natural selection, or the claim that organisms enjoying differential reproductive success will, on average, be those variants that are fortuitously better adapted to changing local environments, and that these variants will then pass their favored traits to offspring by inheritance).

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Simple, Average, Atheism

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• The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.

  Boris Sidis

  Men, Artist, Attention

  "The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology" by Boris Sidis, (p. 98), 1914.

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• Go through detailed variations in your own time, think in a general way about the position in the opponent's time and you will soon find that you get into time trouble less often, that your games have more content to them, and that their general standard rises.

  Alexander Kotov

  Time, Thinking, Games

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• It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Common Sense, Chess, Theory

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• Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are defective.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Two, Three, Chess

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• Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

  George C. Williams

  Numbers, Theory, Circumstances

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• Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But ... all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization ... and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change.

  Richard Pascale

  Knowledge, Learning, Names

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• You put three facts together - that all organisms produce more offspring that can survive, that there's variation among organisms, and that at least some of that variation is inherited - and the syllogistic inference is natural selection.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Together, Three, Facts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The slight variations in extracting procedure cause many of the amygdalin (Vitamin B-17, Laetrile) molecules to change to a form unknown to nature(:) isomers...There are ...purveyors who label their 'iso-amygdalin' products 'amygdalin' contrary to all of the recognized specs...For commercial or political purposes, they certainly cannot justify such a fallacy...This scientific heresy and commercial fraud...(is) tremendously reducing the effectiveness of amygdalin therapy. ...To mislabel iso-amygdalin as amygdalin is scientifically, medically, and morally indefensible.

  Ernst T. Krebs

  Dark, Effectiveness, Political

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• The variation between countries is partly due to cultural and institutional differences, but undoubtedly the economic landscape within each territory is crucial.

  Lorna Byrne

  Country, Differences, Landscape

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• ... much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic, observable differences in mental functioning.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Differences, Facts, Chance

  Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (1995). “Gifts differing: understanding personality type”, Davies-Black Publishing

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• Just as it is wrong to work on chess by studying only the first 10-15 moves, so it is wrong to play one and the same opening system, even though it be rich in variations and nuances.

  Efim Geller

  Moving, Play, Chess

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• Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the continuous present of the natural world: it has no memory of its previous actions, no plans for the future, or underlying purpose.

  Henry Gee

  Memories, Purpose, World

  Henry Gee (1999). “In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life”, p.96, Cornell University Press

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• Our pointe shoes are our instruments. If something's wrong with my feet, all my mind goes there. I usually have six pairs ready. Soft shoes for one act, stiffer shoes for another, stronger shoes for a variation with a lot of turns.

  Nina Ananiashvili

  Shoes, Feet, Mind

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• The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stuff, Form, Foe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.224, Penguin

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• I've been variations of vegetarian for over 20 years. I'm Canadian so I always say, be the best you can be.

  Pamela Anderson

  Years, Vegetarian, Being The Best

  "Pamela Anderson Loves Miley, Has No Opinion on the "Car-Crashians"". Interview with Corinn Jackson, www.elle.com. December 14, 2015.

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• Photography is a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness with the fairy-tale world of childhood, a never-ending journey through great and small, through variations and the realm of illusions and appearances, a labyrinthine and specular place of multitudes and simulation.

  Luigi Ghirri

  Photography, Adventure, Journey

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• I believe that the medium of photography prevails entirely as an act of faith in the souls of those who love and practice it. And so every photograph becomes another subtle variation on the theme of the medium itself.

  Ralph Gibson

  Photography, Believe, Practice

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• Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.

  William Saroyan

  Men, Guilt, Innocence

  William Saroyan (2009). “The Time of Your Life”, p.3, A&C Black

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• All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. Try to tell the kids in the Seventies who were screaming to the Bee Gees that their music was just The Beatles redone. There is nothing wrong with the Bee Gees.

  John Lennon

  Kids, Trying, Bees

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• Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps.

  Charles Darwin

  Steps, Natural, Modification

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.3702, Delphi Classics

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• It's a double-headed coin, because technology is a convenience but it's stifled our attention spans. At one time, albums had songs that were like ten minutes long, with different variations and chord progressions and changes.

  Cee Lo Green

  Song, Technology, Long

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• There is often variations of evil on both sides of the war. What we have to decide is whether or not regime change is a good idea. It's what the neoconservatives have wanted. It's what the vast majority of those on the stage want.

  Rand Paul

  War, Ideas, Evil

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• What would happen if the moon were not there? Then our tilt could swing wildly over a large range, resulting in major temperature swings. If our tilt were more like ninety degrees, the north pole would be exposed to the sun for six months, while the south pole would be in darkness, then vice-versa. Instead, it varies by only about one and a half degrees - just a tiny variation, because the gravity from the moon's orbit keeps it stabilized.

  Guillermo Gonzalez

  Moon, Swings, Darkness

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• I think the eyeball is the same, [in] an American or African. The problem is the same, the treatment is the same. Yet why should there be so much variation in quality and in service?

  Thulasiraj Ravilla

  Thinking, Quality, Healthcare

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