Quote by Daniel Dennett
Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad ra

Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently – the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs good tricks. – Daniel Dennett

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In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past. – Daniel Dennett

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Courage
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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesnt need its brain anymore so it eats it! – Daniel Dennett

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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it. – Daniel Dennett

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Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful. – Dieter Rams

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Color does not add a pleasant quality to design – it reinforces it. – Pierre Bonnard

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I have always had an interest in fashion and design and I appreciate style and timelessness within my footwear and accessories both on and off the court. – Maria Sharapova

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Ive generally got a good eye for design and proportion. – Bruce Oldfield

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I just want to be a part of great stories, whether Im part of an amazing ensemble cast or Im leading it or the antagonist or whatever. – Zoe Saldana

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Since Ive started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control. – Gina Carano

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respect

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric. – Christian Nestell Bovee, Intuitions and Summaries of Thought: Vol.II, 1862

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Heres my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation. – Suze Orman

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