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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

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 true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection. — Irving Babbitt

Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time. — Steven Pinker

The selection and following of a spiritual guide is the most important duty of a Sufi. — Idries Shah

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

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection. — Charles Darwin

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. — E. O. Wilson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Best people all have some sort of scar- America Singer, The One — 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

We no longer have natural selection. We have unnatural selection. Survival of the fittest has been replaced by survival of the fakest. — Maureen Dowd

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

Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives. — Richard Dawkins

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

And that was how the Selection did its first act in my favor: if I had her here, at least I had the chance to try. — Kiera Cass

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

Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random. — Richard Dawkins

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

He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Just remember, your mother doesn't let things happen to her. When something tries to ruin her life, she drags it into the street. — Kiera Cass

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

[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

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

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

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

And it's old advice, but it's good: be yourself.
-Queen Amberly, The Selection/The Prince — Kiera Cass

By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy. — David Quammen

Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended. — Charles Lindbergh

A deep understanding of Darwinism teaches us to be wary of the easy assumption that design is the only alternative to chance — Richard Dawkins

Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection. — Richard Leakey

Live your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don't matter, and fight. — Kiera Cass

Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains. — John C. Bogle

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste. — David Rockefeller

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. — Charles Darwin

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. — Daniel Dennett

The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you're sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read. — Guy Kawasaki

If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection. — Richard Dawkins

High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts. — Finley Peter Dunne

If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives. — Kenneth Burke

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.

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

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 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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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