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• The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.

  Josh Billings

  Dog, Men, Kind

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• We humans have always been resilient. With each industrial revolution, we have adapted, creating new jobs with new technologies.

  Hari Sreenivasan

  Jobs, Technology, Creating

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among the individuals of that species, we must be assured, that, on the one hand, those which depart most from the best adapted constitution, will be most liable to perish, while, on the other hand, those organised bodies, which most approach to the best constitution for the present circumstances, will be best adapted to continue, in preserving themselves and multiplying the individuals of their race.

  James Hutton

  Race, Hands, Body

  "An Investigation into the Principles of Knowledge". Book by James Hutton, 1794.

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• As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to which the individual has become adapted; and almost everything is unnatural outside his range of adaptation. Harmonious equilibrium with nature is an abstract concept with a Platonic beauty but lacking the flesh and blood of life. It fails, in particular, to convey the creative emergent quality of human existence.

  Rene Dubos

  Life, Home, Blood

  René Jules Dubos (1987). “Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change”, p.28, Rutgers University Press

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• As for meat, let me say it upfront:Humans haven’t fully adapted to eating meat.

  Ori Hofmekler

  Meat, Eating, Let Me

  Ori Hofmekler (2007). “The Warrior Diet: Switch on Your Biological Powerhouse for High Energy, Explosive Strength, and a Leaner, Harder Body”, p.61, Blue Snake Books

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• The strengths landscape architecture draws from its garden design heritage include: the Vitruvian design tradition of balancing utility, firmness and beauty; use of the word 'landscape' to mean 'a good place' - as the objective of the design process; a comprehensive approach to open space planning involving city parks, greenways and nature outside towns; a planning theory about the contextualisation of development projects; the principle that development plans should be adapted to their landscape context.

  Tom Turner

  Mean, Garden, Cities

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• Open-source code is extremely well-adapted to service-oriented architecture.

  Winston Damarillo

  Architecture, Source, Wells

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• I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Thinking, Interesting, Long

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• He will also find that the high and independent spirit, which usually dwells in the breast of those who are deeply versed in scientific pursuits, is ill adapted for administrative appointments; and that even if successful, he must hear many things he disapproves, and raise no voice against them.

  Charles Babbage

  Independent, Successful, Science

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• No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Character, Boys, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The European drivers have adapted to this circuit extremely quickly, especially Paul Radisich who's a New Zealander.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Circuits

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• If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in the end. You either make a five hour movie or you leave out stuff that should be in there.

  Jeremy Sisto

  Book, Cutting, Thinking

  "IGN Interview: Kidnapped's Jeremy Sisto and Will Denton". Interview with Travis Fickett, www.ign.com. September 28, 2006.

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• Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Beauty, Looks, Taste

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• The church must seek to be biblical rather than relevant. We are not going to leave a mark upon our culture because we have studied its ways and adapted ourselves to it. We are relevant when we reject the world outright and are its polar opposite! This present darkness provides a great opportunity for the church to be the salt of the earth, but if we mix with the very impurities we are supposed to expose... we are as useless as our culture already believes us to be.

  Paul Washer

  Believe, Biblical, Opportunity

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• Puritanism carried the ethos of the rational organization of capital and labor. It took over from the Jewish ethic only what was adapted to this purpose.

  Max Weber

  Ethos, Organization, Purpose

  Max Weber (2012). “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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• As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being.

  John Dewey

  Obstacles, Vain, Form

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• Our microeconomic indicators are stable and it gives me reason to believe that we will calmly and steadily pass this uneasy period in our economy, which has already no doubt adapted to the current situation.

  Vladimir Putin

  Believe, Giving, Doubt

  Source: thesaker.is

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• If the love of surgery is a proof of a person's being adapted for it, then certainly I am fitted to he a surgeon; for thou can'st hardly conceive what a high degree of enjoyment I am from day to day experiencing in this bloody and butchering department of the healing art. I am more and more delighted with my profession.

  Joseph Lister

  Art, Healing, Degrees

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• As gang members, as young dudes in the streets, especially in L.A., we're the effect of a situation. We didn't wake up and create our own mindstate and our environment; we adapted our survival instincts.

  Nipsey Hussle

  Gang Members, Survival, Wake Up

  Source: djbooth.net

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• I have adapted the whole book [Candid] into tweets of 140 characters, and these are being sent out daily, at the rate of eight tweets per day .

  Mark Ravenhill

  Book, Character, Eight

  Source: voltairefoundation.wordpress.com

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• We finally know where the red line for climate really is. After the rapid melt of arctic ice in the summer of 2007, our best scientists, led by NASA's Jim Hansen, went back to work and produced a series of papers showing that with more than 350 ppm (parts per million) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, we couldn't have a planet "similar to the one on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted."

  Bill McKibben

  Summer, Ice, Civilization

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• I could easily go through all my books and mark the ones that were original, mark the ones that were adapted or pre-published that I've found. I'm guessing though that probably 75% of them are personal events. I just love a personal story.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Events, Stories

  Source: www.preaching.com

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• The Roman Catholic Church early on simply adapted the hierarchical structure of the Roman Empire and confused the whole thing. Vertical attention and hierarchy were so entangled, that when the French killed the king during the Revolution, they lost much of their vertical attention too.

  Robert Bly

  Kings, Confused, Catholic

  Source: www.utne.com

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• I felt that we could hardly improve on the conception of the university expressed by one of the founders of the modern system, Wilhelm von Humboldt, also one of the founders of classical liberalism. That seems to me true today as well, though ideals of course have to be adapted to changing circumstances.

  Noam Chomsky

  Today, Modern, Circumstances

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• I think a lot of ["Cosmopolitans"] is marked by [Jerome David] Salinger. Salinger wouldn't allow his works to be adapted for film after his experience with "Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut," and I think that's great for us because then we have to do our own Salinger stories.

  Whit Stillman

  Uncles, Thinking, Stories

  Source: newrepublic.com

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