#rve

Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#actually #almost #biologists #due #evolution

People call me Wayne Wonder and it also goes back to football because I could do mad skills with the ball and people would marvel and wonder how I could do it. ↗

— Wayne Wonder

#back #ball #because #call #could

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#becomes #callous #conform #dull #emptiness

Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities. ↗

— Leonard Woodcock

#american #american cities #balance #between #bureau

Living as I do with human beings, the more that I observe them, the more I am forced to conclude that they are selfish. ↗

— Sōseki Natsume

#life-and-living #living #observe #selfish #life

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#agree #agreed #character #control #evidence

Mechanization best serves mediocrity. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#mediocrity #serves

The Bush administration did stop filling the reserve in 2002 when it helped the oil industry. Now they should do it to help the consumer. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#bush #bush administration #consumer #did #filling

I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability. ↗

— Viktor Yanukovych

#better #better life #changes #deserves #good

Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations. ↗

— Ilya Yashin

#being #brigades #confirmed #cover #democratic