#apt

A true champion can adapt to anything. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#anything #champion #true

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#defect #dull #grave #perfection

I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs. ↗

— Richard Marx

#guy #i #last #love #love songs

What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know. ↗

— Mary Stuart Masterson

#captivating #character #dramatic #entertainers #finding

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#extreme #freshness #i #like #new

I started accessible GPS research in 1994 and the first version became available on a laptop in 2000. ↗

— Mike May

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The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they will inoculate themselves. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#bad #captive #go #idea #might

Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#aptitude #basic #between #beyond #difference

Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in fact, find themselves thus abused and oppressed, they must be stupid not to complain. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#complain #fact #find #governors #greatly

As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

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