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I think of the present digital/IT evolution happening in the global industry as the most exciting period I have ever witnessed. And somehow new ways of distribution will come into play but let's start with reopening the Chauvel for the independent filmmakers of Sydney and Australia. In the wealthiest city in Australia, can't we raise $250,000 or so to keep our film culture alive?

A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.

We now see that natural selection *is* working to conserve this unpartnered region of the Y, ... If mutations do occur in any of these genes, they don't seem to pass on in the lineage. This is a clear example of how evolution is not just about moving ahead, it's also about not falling behind.

A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!

That's the issue, whether we should suppress the open discussion of evolution. Can evolution ever be falsified if it can't be criticized?

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.

I was born and raised in the Northeast, and country music oftentimes is attached to a stereotype, and really, the evolution of country music over the past couple of decades shows it is mainstream music,

You keep showing up, you see the process, the evolution.

While domestic telecom revenues were down, we recognize that this is part of the evolution of our business model, and we are on track with where we want to be, ... It's significant that new growth businesses, such as wireless, data, long-distance and broadband, now account for more than half of our revenues.

We're curious to see whether or not the rocks, in fact, are tilted to the south. So far, we have seen them largely tilted to the north. That is going to tell us about the structure and a little bit more about the evolution of the Columbia Hills. And also whether or not the variety of the rocks that we've seen so far continues to increase.

Yes, that's true. It's all part of the ongoing evolution in TV programming how to work with these facts, and events like the World Series and college (football) bowl games, and still maximize the appeal of our schedule.

We don't get pushed around by anybody. (The one-dimensional fighter) is a player who's losing his niche in hockey because of the evolution of the game.

We have some evidence that people are reacting to the state board's evolution debates, ... People are raising questions whether certain kinds of science can be done successfully in Kansas.

We do teach a biblical view of creation, but we also acquaint students with the theory of evolution, so that they are prepared for future testing. We don't believe that evolution has been proven. We have students read scholarly work that raises questions.

We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped. Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation.

We believe the success of the continued evolution of the Paul Lee's Chinese Kitchen brand will be best served under Paul Fleming's stewardship. As a measure of our confidence in Paul and his team, we have retained the option to re-enter the joint venture in the future.

Typically, hospital clients just don't have the internal resources. They don't have the depth of resources on staff, so it's a natural evolution to go to an outside source for that.

.travel is now a permanent part of the foundation of the World Wide Web. As travel and tourism businesses register their .travel domains they are not only reshaping the next generation Internet but making history by playing their role in this defining moment in the evolution of travel industry.

Today's launch is a pivotal moment in our history, ensuring a well-known and much-loved search engine continues at the forefront of the evolution of the Internet search market.

Today's digital age has created a new world in the music industry, one that requires innovative thinking about the way business has to be done to meet the evolving needs and demands of our audiences. I want to thank Warner Music for pioneering change in the industry, and in so doing, providing us both with a way to bring more music to more fans across the globe. This is a great leap forward in the evolution of our mobile video strategy, and we look forward to developing more exciting initiatives in this space over the year to come.

We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn't evolutionarily sustainable.

thoughtful, secular approach to the chairmanship, focused on the long-term evolution of the U.S. and the global economy.

Thus we have plans to capitalize on that growth through network expansion and evolution and perhaps through other strategic initiatives, including participation in the upcoming spectrum auctions both on our own, or potentially with partners.

The policy we do prefer is that teachers teach both the strengths and the weaknesses of evolution, without getting into replacement theories like intelligent design.

The overall quality of women's golf is getting better, ... It's a natural evolution that these players are better.

We're excited about proceeding with this project, which represents another monumental step in the evolution of our case ready meats business,

We believe evolution should be taught as a scientific theory that is open to critical scrutiny, not as a sacred dogma that can't be questioned.

...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.

Obviously it depends on how you define a word like "evolution," because of course we have been evolving - both biologically and culturally - in relation to the natural world for hundreds of thousands of years.

I would like evolution to join the roster of other discredited religions.

No matter what argument you make against evolution, the response is Well, you know, it's possible to believe in evolution and believe in God. Yes, and it's possible to believe in Spiderman and believe in God, but that doesn't prove Spiderman is true.

Although God believers don't need evolution to be false, atheists need evolution to be true.

As we go from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to Mitt Romney, I now understand why the Republicans don't believe in evolution.

What it's been is the evolution of terminology. A little wedge here, then in Kansas, South Carolina, Utah, and all over the United States. That's Discovery's modus operandi.

What we're watching in real time is evolution. And it's a biological process, and it is, by definition, unpredictable.

The evolution of one's own soul is a process. It's not a quick fix. It's not a five-day workshop. It's a lifetime process where we let go, discover and then allow for futures to come into existence.

You are designed to reinvent and re-create yourself, over and over again. And, you are here-whether you want to acknowledge it or not; whether you even know it or not-for the evolution of your own soul.

Theology made no provision for evolution.

To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution.

That is the great mystery of human evolution: how to account for calculus and Mozart.

In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species.

To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution.

We're the last billionth of a second in the evolution of matter.

Mesarovic and Pestel are critical of the Forrester-Meadows world view, which is that of a homogeneous system with a fully predetermined evolution in time once the initial conditions are specified.

I feel like my evolution has come to a place where now I'm attached to Crazy Rich Asians.

Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.

When god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began

I always loved bluegrass, but there was so much I didn't know about American country music in respect to the origins of this country. It was interesting to see the evolution of it.

If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.

Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness.

The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.

You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as being evolutionary.

There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond.

I do believe in this evolution of consciousness as the only thing which we can embark on, or in fact, willy-nilly, are embarked on; and along with that will go the spiritual discoveries and, I feel, the inexhaustible wonder that one feels, that opens more and more the more you know. It's simply that this increasing knowledge constantly enlarges your kingdom and the capacity for admiring and loving the universe.

Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.

I have shown that those who deplore Artificial Intelligence are also those who deplore the evolutionary accounts of human mentality: if human minds are non-miraculous products of evolution, then they are, in the requisite sense, artifacts, and all their powers must have an ultimately mechanical explanation. We are descended from macros and made of macros, and nothing we can do is beyond the power of huge assemblies of macros.

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.'

The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.

Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution

Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.

Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design.

Conscious evolution begins as we take responsibility for clearing our own obstructions.

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

We should recognize that we're seeing a generational evolution in work style. Instead of trying to stop it, we need to look for ways to work with them more securely. Ultimately, IT is a service function for the staff. They're giving IT direction in the way they want to work. They're actually out there trying to do more work for the firm.

While perfectly ready for prime time today, there are still some ingredients that have not yet been completely baked and the process of evolution is still underway.

It wasn't until after I'd been around Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, that I started to reflect about issues like the evolution of consciousness.

A Oneness of all. An evolution in consciousness of us all that isn't about the egos.

What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.

We really do believe that industrial biotech is critical to our evolution, but the technologies of the foreseeable future just do not give the returns we expect from our research dollar.

There has been no evolution of the quarterback,

There has been an evolution in his thinking. . . . He is much more aware of the subtleties of making this work in the American political process. He is not an egghead academic who doesn't get it. He knows how to learn and operate in the real world.

This transaction brings us to the next chapter in the evolution of our business. We are excited to have J.W. Childs and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity on board to support us in our efforts as we continue to pursue our growth strategy. We are also very pleased that Allied Capital will remain our financial partner and that John Shulman will continue to hold a seat on our Board of Directors.

We believe information is power. We also believe the Internet is a positive force in China. It has revolutionized information access, helps create open societies and helps accelerate the gradual evolution toward a more outward-looking Chinese society.

We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any definite process.

Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted.

We always try to look three to five years out in the decisions we make and there's no question that the Cisco brand, our opportunity in the commercial market and the evolution of our leaders are going to take us to the next level.

We made a conscious decision to become more involved politically. It's kind of been an evolution of the process in which we recognized that not necessarily to get a seat at the table but to get someone's ear, to be able to be an influencer, if you would, to support candidates that support our objectives for our customers, that we were going to have to be more involved.

Without his insights, we would fail to appreciate the dangerous potentials of rapid evolution in the avian flu virus.

With the capacity to communicate, immediately came the evolution of complex communities of organisms: hives, flocks, tribes, herds, whatever.

With so many single purpose devices in the market, combined with evolving technology, consumers are resisting making a choice. Our research shows that over time, mobility will be adopted more widely. The mobile evolution has only just begun. Compatibility and convergence will be the key influences on consumer purchases and enterprise product development as we move forward.

When we look at chimpanzees . . . we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand a lot more about the processes that are changing our own genome over time.

When we started with Manchester United Vodafone was still largely a UK-based business with a growing set of international interests. Manchester United fitted very well at that point as a very big sporting brand, a UK-based team with quite a good international fan base. It fitted us at that point of time. It is part of the evolution from a UK-based business to a multi-national one.

Expect to see changes that will make it far easier for consumers to print their photos anytime and from anywhere. The evolution of snapshot-sized printers, the growth in wireless printing, and the emerging popularity of net-to-retail printing are just a few of the trends that will make printing simpler, more convenient, and more fun.

But just since last summer this has been a key point of discussion at several conferences and caused quite an excitement, as people see the data. Among other things, it helps to explain how water, or something else serving the same role, could have helped lead to the evolution of life.

The grass-roots movement you see across America right now, with the school board battles, with the students questioning evolution in colleges, all of that is really in a big part due to the work of Dr. Henry Morris. All of us in the modern creationism movement today would say we stand on his shoulders.

There is a lot of pent-up demand from companies that haven?t found a place to locate. That?s part of the evolution of how retail moves. People have ideas and concepts and retailing advances around those ideas. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don?t.

Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully. Fact and theory are intertwined, and all great scientists understand the interaction.

Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade-a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that evolution generates no predictions, never exposes itself to test, and therefore stands as dogma rather than disprovable science. This claim is nonsense. We make and test risky predictions all the time; our success is not dogma, but a highly probable indication of evolution's basic truth.

I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know.

[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science.

Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information.

Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory ...

The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable.

History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.

... each with its own beauty, and each with a story to tell.

Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.