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Quotes About Adaptation

A man can be in two different places and he will be two different men. Maybe if you think of more places he will be more men, but two is enough for now.
~ Elmore Leonard
A man who has drank his drinks cold at the same expense for one week can never be presented with them warm again.
~ Frederic Tudor
I feel like, as women and men and people on the planet, you just have to do the best with what life gives you.
~ Jennifer Love Hewitt
Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.
~ Josh Billings
By changing the way you do routine things you allow a new man to grow inside you.
~ Paulo Coelho
Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.
~ Robert Browning
Man is the only animal to borrow tools.
~ Tim Allen
Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.
~ Tristan Bernard
Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.
~ W. H. Auden
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
~ Joseph Addison
When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.
~ Calamity Jane
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
~ Alan Perlis
Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.
~ Anton Chekhov
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
~ Arthur Miller
Man is an ape with possibilities.
~ Roy Chapman Andrews
It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.
~ Will Cuppy
The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.
~ John Zachary Young
The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.
~ Len Deighton
We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.
~ Charles Darwin
Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .
~ Clifford D. Simak
There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper.
~ Criss Jami
It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.
~ Eugenie Clark
Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton