#ura

What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#carrying #duration #favors #fortune #her

For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#acquire #begin #country #cultural #earth

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#courage #fruit #wisdom #without

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.' ↗

— Billy Graham

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Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. ↗

— Billy Graham

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Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think. ↗

— Billy Graham

#angels #believers #courage #look #nearer

In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

#before #care #field #giving #had

I don't think it's rational for a country to try to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador in a restaurant in Washington. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

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I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen. ↗

— Hugh Grant

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