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All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting. — N. T. Wright

It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature. — Charles Darwin

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself. — Jacques Monod

Just remember we're now in selection. Every piece, every erg, every seat race-they're all recorded, and I notice things — Mike Teti

We have stopped natural selection from purifying the species because deep in our heart of hearts, we are all terrified that we won't make the cut. — Moxie Mezcal

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful. — Paul Bettany

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements. — Anais Nin

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach. — Paulo Coelho

The mechanism of natural selection depends on the survival, not of the strongest, nor the most intelligent, but of the most adaptable. — Julian Barnes

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. — Ronald A. Fisher

I wanted everything from and everything for him, because I wanted every piece of him. — Kiera Cass

Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?' — Jamais Cascio

The Selection was no longer something that was simply happening to me, but something I was actively a part of. I was an Elite. — Kiera Cass

We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more. — Tracy Letts

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. — Charles Darwin

boys had been programmed by Darwinian selection to run around in the open chucking spears at wild animals - something — Neal Stephenson

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree — Charles Darwin

I always wondered if they'd change you. — Kiera Cass

I prefer being below the radar. That's what I'm used to, you know? — Kiera Cass

Prince Maxon surveyed the room and found me. Our eye met for a moment, and he smiled. — Kiera Cass

Welcome to the first ever Selection Variety Show, starring a bunch of losers competing for your attention. — Kiera Cass

As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them. — Richard Dawkins

It's hard to get a hug wrong. — Kiera Cass

Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations. — Richard Dawkins

Druids always pick the hard way; it encourages natural selection. — Rich Burlew

I'd rather have my last memory be of his death than suffer knowing that his last memory was of mine. — Kiera Cass

She was a round, curvy woman who, for Parker, brought to mind a figure assembled from a selection of soft fruits. Aside — John Connolly

... Bond selection is primarily a negative art. It is a process of exclusion and rejection, rather than of search and acceptance. — Benjamin Graham

Watching the abuse and worry he dealt with firsthand made me see how time and fear could shape a person into someone who is, by most accounts, evil. — Kiera Cass

This Maxon, he is handsome. How can I get into the Selection? — Kiera Cass

The selection of leadership must follow practical considerations. Maybe I look at things too pessimistically? — Anna Freud

We've got to stop being afraid of the change. — Kiera Cass

It was dark, so I couldn't make out much of her face, but she had brilliant red hair, like honey and roses and the sun altogether. — Kiera Cass

It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection. — Irving Babbitt

Everything begins with chioce. — S.J. Wardell

But that's what happens in life. People find new friends and new sisters. It's called natural selection. — Sophie Kinsella

If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse. — Zane Stumpo

[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals. — Edward O. Wilson

Homosexuality is nature's way of keeping the population in check. — Abhijit Naskar

Natural selection is anything but random. — Richard Dawkins

Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement — Stephen Jay Gould

By birth you have been blessed, and it is time to acknowledge that blessing. — Kiera Cass

I feel that no good leader can let the masses go unfed — Kiera Cass

Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive. — Andrew Lo

It isn't so much that I choose the roles - I mean, I guess there's a little bit of a selection process - but it's more just what people offer you. — Owen Wilson

Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course. — Asa Gray

Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process — Gerald Edelman

In the case of living machinery, the 'designer' is unconscious natural selection, the blind watchmaker. — Richard Dawkins

For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene. — Richard Dawkins

Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself. — Peter Drucker

The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection. — Charles Darwin

Natural selection awards no prize for second place. — Thomas Lewis

Selection Bias: basically, that your inferences will be biased if you use a non-random sample and pretend that it's random. — Uri Bram

What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero. — Sam Harris

Thank you," he whispered. "At least I can know for certain that, for one brief moment of our time together, you and I felt the same thing. — Kiera Cass

My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career. — Stacy Keach

I think I'll try the cinnamon-spice chai latte, she said, giving me a stern look that said, I will not be ashamed of my beverage selection. — Gayle Forman

I never thought to question the lack of truth until it had been placed in front of me. Why did the king just let us guess? — Kiera Cass

Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection. — Theodore Levitt

I'd decided that I was going to stop dressing like a princess and start dressing like a queen. — Kiera Cass

We must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations. — Stephen Jay Gould

I will never forget your fire. I can't wait to see what you do. — Kiera Cass

I've always taught pitch selection, but I just want my guys to be aggressive on their pitch. — Lamar Johnson

I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them. — Kiera Cass

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter. — Kate Adie

I think it's our unique product selection and the idea that everything we sell only can be purchased at Ikea. — Joseph Roth

He was composed, polite, and intelligent. All the things a prince should be. — Kiera Cass

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet. — George William Norris

Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery. — Robert Crippen

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion. — Richard Dawkins

This preservation of favourable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection. — Charles Darwin

I thinking gay and straight people use the same putters, it's not a matter of putters but a matter of hole selection. — Jon Stewart

I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent. — Charles Darwin

Experience and experiment are crucially important here - neural Darwinism is essentially experiential selection. The — Oliver Sacks

True leaders don't look at just the outward appearances in the selection of team members, they look at one's core values and heart. — Farshad Asl

Memory is ... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection. — Alain De Botton

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it. — Jared Diamond

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely. — Thurgood Marshall

Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing. — Ruhollah Khomeini

Names that tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often proceeds the selection of a name — Claude C. Hopkins

When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices. — Laura Mennell

America Singer, one day you will fall asleep in my arms every night. And you'll wake up to my kisses every morning. — Kiera Cass

Evil is moral at it heart. The selection of vice over virtue; you can pretend not to know, you can rationalize, but you know it in your conscience. — Gregory Maguire

Sensual pleasures are the whip natural selection uses to control us, to keep us in the thrall of its warped values system. — Robert Wright

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement. — Barbara Tuchman

It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection. — John Tyler Bonner

The whole purpose of our search for a 'unit of selection' is to discover a suitable actor to play the leading role in our metaphors of purpose. — Richard Dawkins

Bands don't play the whole LP. They play a selection of the songs that they like. — Peter Hook

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. — Charles Darwin

Road trips required a couple of things: a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar and an excellent selection of tunes - oh, and directions. — Jenn McKinlay

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection. — Edmund Burke

Love only yourself a little bit longer, until you can't stand not to love someone else. — Kiera Cass

If we, as a species, are the ultimate product of Darwinian selection, then so, too, is this incredible disease that lurks inside us. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Natural selection is not evolution. — Ronald Fisher

Barnsley argues that these kinds of skewed age distributions exist whenever three things happen: selection, streaming, and differentiated experience. — Anonymous

There is no mechanism of selection in the history of ideas akin to that of the natural selection of genetic mutations in evolution — John Gray

The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection. — Winifred Holtby

[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries. — Thurgood Marshall

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection. — Jeff Bezos