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Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random. — Richard Dawkins
I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment,… — Rupert Brooke
It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is, however, too… — Dalai Lama
Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . . .… — Giacomo Puccini
If you really don't know where to start or if you're stuck, start generating random connections and allow your intuition to tell you if one… — John Cleese
The cumulative nature of the evolutionary process, the fact that memory is preserved, means that life grows not just through a random proliferation of new… — Rupert Sheldrake
Machines are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different… — Rupert Sheldrake
A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may… — Walter J. Phillips
Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. — Steve Jobs
I'll grant the random access to my heart, Thoul't tell me all the constants of thy love; And so we two shall all love's lemmas… — Stanislaw Lem
If I wanted to be free, truly free, I had to choose. There were many points on the compass rose; I had to locate the… — Richard Bode
I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing at random straining… — John Keats
We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against… — George Steiner
I have my small little cult following, I play random shows from house parties to opening up for rock bands. — Girl Talk
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. — Mahatma Gandhi
I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice. — Teri Garr
I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or… — William Gibson
I got a random tattoo the other day. It's a red triangle, which makes everyone think I'm arty, which I'm not. I used to draw… — Ellie Goulding
I record stuff all the time, like little vocal things. I write random things down... Sometimes I just get things stuck in my head and… — Ellie Goulding
There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of… — Jeff Greenfield

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