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To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.

The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or recombination, is one of the most important results of mathematical analysis applied to the facts of neo-mendelism. It gives accident as well as adaptation a place in evolution, and at one stroke explains many facts which puzzled earlier selectionists, notably the much greater degree of divergence shown by island than mainland forms, by forms in isolated lakes than in continuous river-systems.

I chose to be Mrs. Johnny Cash in my life. I decided I'd allow him to be Moses and I'd be Moses' brother Aaron, picking his arms up and padding along behind him.

Many people believe that dealing with overweight and obesity is a personal responsibility. To some degree they are right, but it is also a community responsibility. When there are no safe, accessible places for children to play or adults to walk, jog, or ride a bike, that is a community responsibility.

Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?

I would (have sex with another woman). Sometimes I feel attracted to other women. It's almost more exciting to watch women getting it on than men.

The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.

Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius?

All through school, people told me I looked like Marcia Brady.

I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant).