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Selection Quotes by Alain de Botton
- If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a…
- Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
More Selection Quotes
- We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible… — M H Abrams
- The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection. — Irving Babbitt
- I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter. — Kate Adie
- One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection. — Jeff Bezos
- 'Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments, of fleeting… — Andrea Bocelli
- I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors,… — Luther Burbank
- Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And… — Kenneth Burke
- Take a random selection of photographs of America in 2012 and 2002 and 1992 and, except for the skinny jeans and the… — Graydon Carter
- Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view.… — Richard Dawkins
- Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural… — Jacques Monod
- Truly, this earth is a trophy cup for the industrious man. And this rightly so, in the service of natural selection. He… — Adolf Hitler