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Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual findings of paleontology. Following phyletic lines through time seemed to reveal only minimal gradual changes but no clear evidence for any change of a species into a different genus or for the gradual origin of an evolutionary novelty. Anything truly novel always seemed to appear quite abruptly in the fossil record. — Ernst Mayr

WINDOW OPENED and the tied-together — David Baldacci

We are here for a short time, so live a life of love and kindness, which tends to live long. — Debasish Mridha

Dilemma? Let him have his way with something simple, or keep getting my way and him torture me later? Hmmm. I guess I'm more of a masochist than I thought. — J.A. Redmerski

He'd thought it would be the right thing to say, but she scoffed a little ... and that, more than anything - more than the prospect of having his ribs crushed in or his face pulled off or his neck stretched on a rope - scared him out of his wits. — V.S. Carnes

True, but one makes you a monster. The other one just makes you an idiot. Which one is it? — Betsy Schow

It's strange how I have felt, with every major event that has occurred in my life, that you were the only person who would understand. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

My mother was mad, but I was not. My father was old, but I was young. Like Spartan Helen, I caused a war. She caused hers by letting men who wanted her take her. I caused mine because I wouldn't be given, wouldn't be taken, but chose my man and my fate. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Silence has always been my default mode - my best defense against the rest of the world. — Matthew Quick

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. — Joseph Wood Krutch

It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation. — Judith Butler

Keynes vs Hayek? Friedman vs Krugman? Those are the wrong intellectual debates. Its you vs. Tony Hayward, BP CEO, You vs. Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs CEO. And you are losing ... — Barry Ritholtz

Dare to make wishes. The fulfillment of your wishes is possible. — Lailah Gifty Akita