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- We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection… — Lytton Strachey
- The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice… — Unknown Author
- Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of… — Galen Rowell
- It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice — David Landes
- Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines,… — Egon Friedell
- God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it. — Austin O'Malley
- The personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the opposite of those demanded by the office itself. The trouble with the… — James P. Hogan
- Quantitative work shows clearly that natural selection is a reality, and that, among other things, it selects Mendelian genes, which are known… — John B. S. Haldane
- Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with… — Stephen Shore
- One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He… — Barbara Marx Hubbard
- True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich