#own

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#cool #economics #follow #generations #genes

We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. We are shared, rented, occupied. At the interior of our cells, driving them, providing the oxidative energy that sends us out for the improvement of each shining day, are the mitochondria, and in a strict sense they are not ours. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#cells #day #driving #each #energy

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#framework #lifestyle #order #principle #sound

Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#evaluating #far #important #important thing #leadership

The President's political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of this downturn. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#downturn #get #going #political #president

I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no matter what it takes. ↗

— Benmont Tench

#against #chords #down #five #gonna

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves. ↗

— William Temple

#arrows #back #believe #between #complaints

Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#field #himself #his #individual #off

I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#behave #calm #composed #fascinating #father

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#events #find #happen #lives #order