"I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location."

-- Ernst Mayr

#Location Quotes #Population Quotes #Found Quotes

“We often forget that Spain controlled big parts of Europe, in Italy and the Netherlands. In the Middle Ages, Spain and Portugal were so powerful that they signed a set of treaties literally dividing up the globe between them.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“If, as you teach, the universe has no beginning and no end, why should we?”

Source : Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.299, Paradise Publishing
“Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, "Let's do things differently." The majority didn't wake up and say, "Oh, let's just free the slaves." Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time had a better idea and articulated another way. That's simply how evolution works; it's the mutation. The member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they're better adapted for survival.”
“As a younger person I think I thought of myself as a Tony [from The Best Man], struggling with the legacy of my famous parents.”

Source : Source: blog.roundabouttheatre.org
“It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.”

Source : Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.340, A&C Black
“It is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same.”
“Art is a reflection on life. Life isnâ€™t something we can cut and fix. Itâ€™s always in a state of flux.”
“Daniel Grigori!" Arriane hooted through her hands. "No!" Daniel hooted back without missing a beat.”

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