#select

Downloading is definitely on the rise, but not because it's free - that's probably third on the list - but because it's immediate and the selection is virtually unlimited. ↗

— Don Rose

#definitely #downloading #free #immediate #list

I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life. ↗

— Diana Ross

#choose #coming #going #heart #i

The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to the intelligibility of the world. The match between our intelligence and the intelligibility of the world is no accident. Nor can it properly be attributed to natural selection, which places a premium on survival and reproduction and has no stake in truth or conscious thought. Indeed, meat-puppet robots are just fine as the output of a Darwinian evolutionary process. ↗

— William A. Dembski

#chance #coincidence #consciousness #darwinism #evolution

It's a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please…be selective. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#friends #friendship #honoring-yourself #letting-go #loving-yourself

Dwelling on your problems doesn’t fix them; it just makes you an expert at them. ↗

— Tommy Newberry

#the- #life

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#companions #conversation #enjoyment #few #first

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#gives #seldom #selects #translation #true

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#chosen #enjoyable #few #friends #good

The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#aspect #important #important aspect #involves #law

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#deny #fortune #group #i #inspiration