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I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#classified #even #found #genus #had

Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#any #drastic #evidence #evolutionary #find

The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash. ↗

— James Chiles

#caged #cash #computer #crime #eliminated

New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#every #evolution #gene #generated #generation

I've done well for myself. ↗

— Billy Mays

#i #myself #well

Stuck in the plane on the runway. You can always count on US Air. ↗

— Billy Mays

#always #count #plane #runway #stuck

Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.' ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#cancer #chance #cyclist #ever #famous

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball. ↗

— Willie Mays

#basketball #because #black #college #could

I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did. ↗

— Willie Mays

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #be yourself #business

I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game. ↗

— Willie Mays

#baseball #baseball game #become #could #down