#adapt

I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species. ↗

— George C. Williams

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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#because #belief #evolved #form #itself

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#adapted #ball #control #endeavors #game

The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels. ↗

— William Hague

#brussels #building #competitiveness #concentrated #eu

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#arousing #better #description #emotion #fact

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#get #individual #ours #secret #site

At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media. ↗

— Josh Hutcherson

#between #book #bridge #certain #creative

But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency. ↗

— John Hutton

#adapt #ambition #citizens #eu #into

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#circumstances #dying #either #faculty #marvelous

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt. ↗

— Salvatore J. Cordileone

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