Selection Quotes

• No, I’m not choosing him or you. I’m choosing me.

  Kiera Cass

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• True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.

  Kiera Cass

  Love, Kind, Inconvenient

  Kiera Cass (2015). “The Favorite”, p.6, HarperCollins

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• 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

  Trying, Knows

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• 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

  Morning, Fall, Kissing

  Kiera Cass (2014). “The Selection Series 3-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Prince, The Guard”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• Maxon lowered his lips to mine and gave me the faintest whisper of a kiss. Something about the tentativeness of it made me feel beautiful. Without a word, I could understand how excited he was to have this moment, but then afraid at the same time. And deeper than any of that, I sensed that he adored me. So this is what it felt like to be a lady.

  Kiera Cass

  Beautiful, Kissing, Lips

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• Success in science and scientific work come not through the provision of unlimited or big resources, but in the wise and careful selection of problems and objectives. Above all, what is required is hard sustained work and dedication.

  Lal Bahadur Shastri

  Wise, Dedication, Problem

  Lal Bahadur Shastri (1974). “Selected Speeches of Lal Bahadur Shastri: June 11, 1964 to January 10, 1966”

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• It is good to keep in mind ... that nobody has ever succeeded in producing even one new species by the accumulation of micromutations. Darwin's theory of natural selection has never had any proof, yet it has been universally accepted.

  Richard Goldschmidt

  Mind, Accepted, Natural

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• Now let me step back from the problem and very generally discuss natural selection and what we know about it. I think it is safe to say that we know for sure that natural selection, as a process, does work. There is a mountain of experimental and observational evidence, much of it predating genetics, which shows that natural selection as a biological process works.

  David M. Raup

  Thinking, Mountain, Doe

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

  Tracy Letts

  Cells, People, Genetics

  Tracy Letts (2010). “August”, p.154, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour.

  John Dyer

  Insomnia, Use, Impossible

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• Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Ice, Romance, Age

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

  Thurgood Marshall

  Challenges, Black Racism, Discrimination

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• I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!

  Yoko Ono

  Book, Thinking, Cities

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• Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?

  Steven Pinker

  Believe, Ideas, People

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• I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gender, place of origin, and age blacked out. This simple change shocked me, because I found myself interviewing different-looking candidates - even though I was 100% convinced that I was not being biased in my resume selection process.

  Eric Ries

  Simple, Names, Giving

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• 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

  Art, Believe, Museums

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

  Louis Kahn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

  ":The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building:Redefining the Practice of Sustainability". Book by Bill Reed (p. 216), October 11, 2011.

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• What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Odd, Biology, Adaptation

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• If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust?

  Timothy Keller

  Strong, Atheist, Judging

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.45, Penguin

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• McDonald's has been extraordinary at site selection; it was a pioneer in studying the best places for retail locations. One of the things it did is study very carefully where sprawl was headed.

  Eric Schlosser

  Mcdonalds, Pioneers, Retail

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  The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

  Richard Dawkins

  Health, Theory Of Evolution, Inspire

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.300, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of choice, but in a world that changes more swiftly that we can perceive there is always the danger that our powers of selection will be mistaken and that the vision we serve will come to nothing.

  John Cheever

  Art, Exercise, Choices

  John Cheever (2010). “Collected Stories”, p.549, Random House

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• As a teenage daughter hears her sweet mother plead unto the Lord that her daughter will be inspired in the selection of her companions, that she will prepare herself for a temple marriage, don't you believe that such a daughter will seek to honor this humble, pleading petition of her mother, whom she so dearly loves?

  Thomas S. Monson

  Daughter, Mother, Sweet

  Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

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• Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religious, Weakness, Groups

  "Altruistic groups, selfish people win". Bloomberg News Interview, www.postandcourier.com. May 5, 2012.

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• 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

  Selfishness, Groups, Sin

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