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In the course of evolution, it constantly happens that, independently of each other, two different forms of life take similar, parallel paths in adapting themselves to the same external circumstances.

Adapting Circumstances Constantly Course
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Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of behaviour patterns which relates to more than a few minor details, we assume it to be caused by parallel adaptation to the same life-preserving function.

Adaptation Assume Behaviour Caused
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Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.

Borrowed Earth Fell Forever
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Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Ability Almost Always Cowardice
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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Best Better Good Good Luck
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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Aim Best Down Feel
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A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Be The First First First Step I Think
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Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing - and am often overweighted with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes.

Am Descriptive Emotions Greatly
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

Book Expect Experience Me
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Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked.

Going Just Know Provoke
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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

About Beyond Bury Child
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We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

Like Need
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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions

Simple Inclined Deceiver Lack
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Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

Ability Behave How Patience
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

Achieving Successful Relationship Disaster
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
Nerve Imagine Force Planets
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
Simple Expediency Wearing White dress
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My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Been Claim Debt Ever
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I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.

Enjoy Family Life Live
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The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Expresses Never Obvious Seen
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You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

Attention Become Blind Brings
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We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

Contact Life Lost Reality
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When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.

About Energy Enthusiastic Feel
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

God Intellectual Levels Metaphor
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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Day Errors Every Every Day
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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.

Tend Similarities Differences
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all

Gratitude Electricity Discharged
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Experience Give Mistakes Name
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

Because Day Down Each
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Always Am Best I Am
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Never Pure Rarely Simple
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

Allowed Become Lead Lives
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

Computer Got Like Man
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

About Born Changed Changes
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Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

Also Beings Beneath Better
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Always Conflicting Directly Entertain
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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
Anger Control Humble Modest
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I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.

Am Debate Discussion Edward
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I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works.

Love Literature I
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I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years.

Comfortably Day Declining Enjoy
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I simply refuse to play by the rules.

Play Refuse Rules Simply
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Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

Survival Included Our Simple
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Accepting Beliefs Both Contradictory
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I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.

Again Even Happens Laugh
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
Happiness Virtue Pleasure Growth
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

Anyone Colonial Complex Knows
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Art Arts College Fine
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The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'

Cosmic Escape Fixed Hence
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Pessimism Luxury Jew Allow
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

Answer Clear Complex Every
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