"The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means."

-- Francis Maitland Balfour

#Mean Quotes #Survival Quotes #Principles Quotes

“Remember how pissed you got when we had to do all that reading about the Rising back in sixth grade? I thought you were going to get us both expelled. You said the only way things could've gotten as bad as they did was if people were willing to take the first easy answer they could find and cling to it, rather than doing anything as complicated as actually thinking.”
“The wheel of Time wrote the first half of the poetry of mass destruction on the black board of the ashes of a funeral ground by dint of a pair of pens of nuclear bombs.”

Source : "Gita Milindam (Song of the Bumblebee)". Book by Manmohan Acharya, July 12, 2010.
“To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.”

Source : "Simplicity". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,
“There were two good fellows I used to know. --How distant it all appears! We played together in football weather, And messed together for years: Now one of them's wed, and the other's dead So long that he's hardly missed Save by us, who messed with him years ago: But we're all in the old School List.”

Source : James Kenneth Stephen (1909). “Lapsus Calami and Other Verses”
“Listen," Mac interrupted, "you still have to knock it out of the park. But it's a degree-of-difficulty thing. You're doing a triple lutz and she's skating. You're the Sasha Cohen here.”

Source : Zoey Dean (2008). “Almost Famous, A Talent novel”, p.105, Penguin
“Your early successes can be your undoing later.”
“My wife really pushed me in that direction, to write my own songs and start singing, so I think having the whole family thing is such a huge thing.”

Source : Source: www.hamptons.com
“He climbs highest who helps another up.”

Source : George Matthew Adams (2016). “You Can: A Collection of Brief Talks on the Most Important Topic in the World-Your Success”, p.39, Ravenio Books

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