#ola

Writing is the supreme solace. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#supreme #writing

All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#claimed #drastic #drastic change #i #isolated

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

The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty. ↗

— Bill McCollum

#clearly #constitution #each #health #health care

I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#before #bit #college #congress #done

Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong. ↗

— Ken Mehlman

#am #benefit #chairman #gave #here

Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience. ↗

— Moby

#isolating #me #strange #tends #touring

I know all about you. You're the people waiting on the shoreline with the warm towels and the hot chocolate after the woman swims the English Channel. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#after #channel #chocolate #english #hot

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#form #goal #isolation #means #never

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion. ↗

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#compassion #consolation #died #drawn #faith