"When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to keep up. When such change occurs, the quality of your adaptation to your old habitat is irrelevant, and any competitive advantage you might have had may be eliminated at a stroke."

-- Ian Tattersall

#Quality Quotes #Habitat Quotes #May Quotes

“An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.”
“I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.”
“We only have one body, and you have to show respect for it.”
“At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun.”

Source : Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions”
“You should own nothing except what you can carry on your back at a dead run.”
“In my case what happened next in 1999 was that I fell apart over that back nine. When I saw I was in genuine contention that year I felt like throwing up. That remains probably the most nervous I've ever been on a golf course.”

Source : "Leaner and meaner" by Bill Elliott, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.
“Kiss the mouth which tells you, here, here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.”

Source : Galway Kinnell (2001). “A New Selected Poems”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Surprisingly, I think if you're known on the Internet, you're probably an introvert.”

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