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By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy. David Quammen
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Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing. Deng Xiaoping
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The more you know, the more you know you don't know. Aristotle
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An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time. Ed Parker
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps. Alexander Smith
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Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound. Charles Caleb Colton
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Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific influence upon different minds, and their common influence upon all minds.... It is therefore high time our most valuable aphorisms and paragraphs were put in order for frequent perusal, and for handy reference, as the circumstances of life call up subjects. Charles Simmons
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The friend of God must not spend a day without God, and he must undertake no work apart from his God. Charles Spurgeon
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A long memory is the most subversive idea in America. A tautology is a thing which is tautological. A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention. If your kids look like you, it's hereditory. If they look like the neighbor, it's the environment. Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. Dave Barry
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What I think is that the F-word is basically just a convenient nasty-sounding word that we tend to use when we would really like to come up with a terrific-ally witty insult, the kind Winston Churchill always came up with when enormous women asked him stupid questions at parties.
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You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.
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I will vote for the first candidate who promises to use nuclear missiles against LinkedIn.
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ways to communicate with the people of Iran to convince them that the policies their leaders have been following are inappropriate. Colin Powell
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Wayne was the kind of guy who would get in your face until he convinced you ... or he just wore you out. Michael Dawidziak
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When he expressed to us that he was considering retirement, we repeatedly tried to convince him otherwise, but completely respect his decision.
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I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad. Natasha Trethewey
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Whether or not to proceed down that path, that decision will be made by the representatives of the pilots and it's just another piece of an overall strategy we will use to convince management to negotiate toward a consensual agreement.
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When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm. Annalee Newitz
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We're finding roadblocks because they have a cookie-cutter mentality to producing buildings. How successful we'll be (in convincing them) is still up in the air, and we can't force them to do this, but we hope to convince them through the power of persuasion.
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I'm so convinced that hiking helps my writing that I recently decided to offer a series of hiking-writing workshops to see if others had the same experience. Kate Klise
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I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon. Jules Verne