"Quantitative work shows clearly that natural selection is a reality, and that, among other things, it selects Mendelian genes, which are known to be distributed at random through wild populations, and to follow the laws of chance in their distribution to offspring. In other words, they are an agency producing variation of the kind which Darwin postulated as the raw material on which selection acts."

-- John B. S. Haldane

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“There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.”
“Sometimes I still don't know if I'm prepared to go through the entire season, dealing with the different personalities, the crowds, the politics.”
“I've always been interesting in characters that challenge people and who are not always that easy to like.”

Source : "David Boreanaz and Julian McMahon Talk FULL CIRCLE, Working from a Neil LaBute Script, Doing So Much Dialogue in a 30-Minute Episode, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 23, 2013.
“I think I related more literally to the early 'Spider-Man' comics from Steve Ditko because it could be upfront and direct about the problems of being a kid. He captured being a teenager so beautifully.”

Source : "Alt-comics great Gilbert Hernandez wanders back into childhood". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.chicagotribune.com. April 17, 2013.
“I'm turning 22, so I want to start getting into work that reflects where I'm at in life now.”
“I admire people who have and show "class." Coach Pat Riley has class! I can only hope other people say the same about me.”
“It is far best for the Christian never to see some things, so he will never want them. The old-fashioned Christian who will not have playing cards in his house will never learn to gamble with them. One who never sees, in movies and night clubs or elsewhere, half-clothed girls, drinking, smoking, gambling, petting, making love to many men, is likely to miss being led into that kind of life by these sirens of sin. It is the Devil's game to make people think it necessary for people to "know the ways of the world.”
“I need to work to support my family.”

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