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Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater. ↗

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

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The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay. ↗

— Chris Colfer

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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I think health is another exceedingly important thing. ↗

— Joan Collins

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I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old. ↗

— Joan Collins

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Often there's a BA crew, because half the time we stay at the same hotels, especially in Australia. I can remember spending quite a lot of time with crews around the pool there. They always make themselves known to us. ↗

— Phil Collins

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It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker. ↗

— Alice Weaver Flaherty

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