"Key West for me was a tropical island paradise."

-- Gloria Swanson

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“It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.”
“Yes, you are exactly my brand of heroin.”
“If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new reality would emerge, and a new age could be born.”
“The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid.”
“I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.”
“The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.”
“Lithuania is a small country, so our contribution would not be that large. We are not afraid of our responsibility. We receive 25 percent of our national budget from the European Union. We understand the value of solidarity.”
“According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.”

Source : "The Dynamics of Evolution: The Punctuated Equilibrium Debate in the Natural and Social Sciences". Book by Albert Somit and Steven Peterson, p. 21-48, "Speciational Evolution or Punctuated Equilibria", 1992.

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