#select

I love this company. I don't know how it was selected. It's a bunch of machers. They mean business. ↗

— Jeffrey Tambor

#business #company #how #i #i love

I remember seeing the song in some diners on the selection gadget that plays records at the table while you were eating. We were never told if the songs ever got on any charts. ↗

— Phil Harris

#charts #eating #ever #gadget #got

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#best #casts #causes #certain #greatest

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#because #historian #i #i think #leading

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#company #detain #dismiss #i #i can

Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive. ↗

— Andrew Lo

#ideas #natural #natural selection #ones #selection

We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#hear #hearing #humans #memory #only

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#challenges #discrimination #eliminating #ending #entirely

The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council. ↗

— David Petraeus

#could #council #difficult #during #elected

Life on earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive life form – perhaps a self-replicating molecule – that lived more than 3.5 billion years ago; it then branched out over time, throwing off many new and diverse species; and the mechanism for most (but not all) of evolutionary change is natural selection. ↗

— Jerry A. Coyne

#natural-selection #change