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Not every given chance deserves love, but every love deserves a given chance.

Yours, poetically: Special Deluxe Edition of Selected Poems and Quotes

Reality is not made of dreams, until you make them real.

Yours, poetically: Special Deluxe Edition of Selected Poems and Quotes

There are good reasons why natural selection has become widely accepted as an explanation of evolutionary development. When applied to mammals and other large animals, it fits perfectly. But we cannot assume that all evolutionary steps arise from sel...

John Tyler Bonner

Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend...

B. F. Skinner

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

It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.

John L. Phillips

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

Vernor Vinge

In a cool solitude of trees Where leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at ease, New rhythms in the soul begin.

The Cats of Rome: New and Selected Poems

TIME Time And how it slips through my fingers Without putting its ring on them, And I remain simply its lover

The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry

Many contemporary composers have been building walls of sounds following their own clever devices. But then, who lives inside those rooms?

Confronting Silence: Selected Writings

all night he talks and holds me, all night he loves me slow and careful.

The Golden Bird: New and selected poems

Still she wondered: did the present deliver up the future, or must you chase your destiny like a harpoonist?

Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories

The beautiful must be incongruous.

4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma, and Jacques Vaché

Nature is only another chimera.

4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma, and Jacques Vaché

Thought involves a little charlatanism.

4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma, and Jacques Vaché

I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.

Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings, 1969-1989

Life is stranger than any of us expected, There is a somber, imponderable fate. Enigma rules, and the heart has no certainty.

Selected Poems, 1930-1965

The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.

Selected Letters III: 1929-1931

Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.

In Search of the Word: Selected Essays

The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open to all, and to be free in a speech that never concludes.

Myself with Others: Selected Essays

Limitations gone: Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenity Make something for which There's no end in sight.

Mirror For The Moon: A Selection Of Poems