#elect

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#altruism #because #been #confer #continuing

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand. ↗

— Brooks Adams

#difference #five #hundred #influence #reaches

Where annual elections end where slavery begins. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#begins #elections #end #slavery #where

I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#affect #believe #citizen #constructive #elected

My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him. ↗

— Immanuel Velikovsky

#ancestors #chapter #chosen #father #first

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#because #elected #fantasy #give #i

When I decided to go to university I didn't know what I wanted to do. When I had an opportunity to take an elective I took Drama by chance, even though I'd never taken a Drama course or even been in a play in high school. Two years later I was majoring in Drama and I knew I wanted to be an actor. ↗

— Kim Coates

#been #chance #course #decided #drama

Since 2000, we have lost 2.7 million manufacturing jobs, of which 500,000 jobs were in high-tech industries such as telecommunications and electronics. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#high-tech #industries #jobs #lost #manufacturing

My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#always #anything #elected #favour #gives

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#count #decide #election #people #votes