"It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon."

-- Ernst Mayr

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“I think comedy is the hardest actual form of writing there is.”
“I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us.”
“You can't change when you're defensive.”

Source : "Overcome Obstacles for Change" by Daniel Goleman, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2014.
“Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.”
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.”
“If you die, I'll die.' 'But is you live, I'll live.' - Bowman and Kestrel, Firesong”
“But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood.”

Source : Helen Hunt Jackson (1872). “Verses”, p.38
“And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.”

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