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In this crucial sense, the theory of punctuated equilibrium adopts a very conservative position. The theory asserts no novel claim about modes or mechanisms of speciation; punctuated equilibrium merely takes a standard microevolutionary model and elucidates its expected expression when properly scaled into geological time.
Stephen Jay Gould
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies.

antoni tàpies

— De Tweede Helft, beeldende kunst na 1945, Ad de Visser, Sun Amsterdam, 1998, p. 56
— About the simple materials he used at his Arte Povera time, such as straw and string.

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Science ... commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

thomas henry huxley

— "The Darwin Memorial" (1885).

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The truth is always in the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because as a rule the minority is made up of those who actually have an opinion, while the strength of the majority is illusory, formed of that crowd which has no opinion and which therefore the next moment (when it becomes clear that the minority is the stronger) adopts the latter's opinion, which now is in the majority, i.e. becomes rubbish by having the whole retinue and numerousness on its side, while the truth is again in a new minority.


— 1850

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We can only be right with and by the Party, for history has provided no other way of being in the right... And if the Party adopts a decision which one or other of us thinks unjust, he will say, just or unjust, it is my party, and I shall support the consequences of the decision to the end.


— Speech at the XIIIth Party Congress, May 1924

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Proudhon goes on to suggest that the real laws by which society functions have nothing to do with authority; they are not imposed from above, but stem from the nature of society itself. He sees the free emergence of such laws as the goal of social endeavour. … Proudhon conceiving a natural law of balance operating within society, rejects authority as an enemy and not a friend of order, and throws back at the authoritarians the accusations leveled at anarchists; in the process he adopts the title he hopes to have cleared of obloquy.

George Woodcock

— Prologue (Anarchism : A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements (1962))

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Man acquires at birth, through heredity, a biological constitution which we must consider fixed and unalterable, including the natural urges which are characteristic of the human species. In addition, during his lifetime, he acquires a cultural constitution which he adopts from society through communication and through many other types of influences. It is this cultural constitution which, with the passage of time, is subject to change and which determines to a very large extent the relationship between the individual and society.


— Albert Einstein , Why Socialism?, Monthly Review, 1949 (reprinted 1998 and 2009)

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God consecrates us with His Spirit; whom He adopts, He anoints; whom He makes sons, He makes saints; He doth not only give them a new name, but a new nature. God turns the wolf into a lamb; He makes the.heart humble and gracious; He works such a change as if another soul did dwell in the same body.


— Thomas Watson,p. 159. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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When thinking of God , when beholding His glorious perfections, when rejoicing in the perfection of His government, and in the excellence of His designs, the humble heart adopts the language of Job : " I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear; but now mine eye seeth Thee: wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."


— Gardiner Spring, p. 332. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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Whoevers tongue utters the truth, his practise becomes purified; and the one whose intention is decent and good, his sustenance increases; and whoever adopts good attitude and decent behavior with his family, his life span lengthens.


— Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p.295

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