![The strong appearance of design [in nature] allows a disarmingly simple argument: if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, then, absent compelling evidence to the contrary, we have warrant to conclude it's a duck. Design should not be overlooked simply because it's so obvious.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-strong-appearance-of-design-in-nature-allows-a-disarmingly-simple-argument.jpg)
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strong war distance
There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
strong team home
Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skills—like intelligence and physical prowess— because men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at the end of the day.” He stuck his thumbs in the air and grinned. “Dinner equals survival, team Becca Fitzpatrick
strong lying home
Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the smartest thing to say. "Dorothea will be coming soon." That was a lie. Dorothea was long gone. It was close to midnight. "Dorothea?" "Our housekeeper. She's old- but strong. Very strong." I tried to squeeze past him. Unsuccessfully. "Sounds frightening," he said, retrieving the key from the lock. He held it out for me. "She can clean a toilet inside and out in under a minute. More like terrifying.
strong wells true-north
Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free. Barry Pepper
strong ideas hungry
I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create. Barry Manilow
strong reading mean
I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it. B. D. Wong
strong military war
It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness. B. H. Liddell Hart
strong war military
If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.
strong military successful
The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.
simple starts tournament
Our tournament starts now. If you lose, you go home. It's as simple as that. This is what you play for. Scott Gomez
simple maturity wish
With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure. Bela Bartok
simple marketing never-forget
Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple. Barry Ritholtz
simple
We need a deal, it's as simple as that. Robert Kraft
simple extinction achieve
A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more fully. But a society where the mass is still simple and the seers are no longer attended to can achieve only superficiality, baseness, ugliness, and in the end extinction. On or back we must go: to stay here is death. C. S. Lewis
simple sound realizing
The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.
simple two people
What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah,I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word. Cecelia Ahern
simple together plans
Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives.
simple people trying
I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working. Carrie Mae Weems
ducks secret paddling
The secret of success is to be like a duck, Smooth and unruffled on top, But paddling furiously underneath. Bill Cosby
ducks excited expand good high joining junior kids sports start trying
Just getting young kids excited about hockey, then they'll want to skate, they'll want to start joining junior leagues, they'll want to play in high school, etc., so we're trying to expand at all levels. That's good for the sport, and it's good for the Ducks long term. Henry Samueli
ducks shooting
It is like shooting ducks in a pond.
ducks six sun
There are six ducks out here, and they all want Sun Chips! Mitch Hedberg
ducks competition grease
The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot. Carl Sandburg
ducks cooking verbs
Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce. Alain Ducasse
ducks execution happy stay throw time whatever
We're happy that we got this little stay of execution, so to speak. It'll give us some time to get all our ducks in a row, to take on whatever they throw at us in the future. Dave Mason
ducks row start
Let's get our ducks in a row before we start shooting. David Martin
ducks looking people purchase remaining step
We are looking for people to step up to purchase the remaining ducks we have.