Quotes About Adaptation

Southeast Asians almost never use chopsticks. If you go to Vietnam or Thailand or Cambodia, you never see a chopstick. Even in the boonies. They use forks and large spoons but when they come here and open a little restaurant they put out chopsticks because that's what Americans expect. Ain't life a bitch?

Men like Neff and Hensman lived between raindrops and worked under eaves.

A simple analogy here will help. The psychopath is like a color-blind person who sees the world in shades of gray but who has learned how to function in a colored world.

What destroyed the Indian was not primarily political greed, land hunger, or military power, not the white man's germs or the white man's rum. What destroyed him was the manufactured products of a culture, iron and steel, guns, needles, woolen cloth, things that once possessed could not be done without."19

Related lessons: Don't go hunting ghosts, and don't get too deep into a situation where your civilizational advantage is of little help.

As the Arab proverb says, "People resemble their times more than they resemble their fathers.

So many transformations!

Geography informs, rather than determines. Geography, therefore, is not synonymous with fatalism.

ALL POST-COMMUNIST SOCIETIES ARE uprooted ones because Communism uprooted traditions, so nothing fits with anything else," explained the philosopher Patapievici.

All I know is, the more I rebuilt, the more I realized that just because things hadn't worked out as I'd planned didn't mean things couldn't work out at all.

It hurts to be lost. You go native because it's better to be wrong than to be lost.

Cuando aprendas a aceptar en lugar de esperar, tendrás menos decepciones".

Friendship isn´t be inseparable it's be separated and knowing nothing will change.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.

Door in the Dark: In going from room to room in the dark, I reached out blindly to save my face, But neglected, however lightly, to lace My fingers and close my arms in an arc. A slim door got in past my guard, And hit me a blow in the head so hard I had my native simile jarred. So people and things don't pair any more With what they used to pair with before.

why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true.

The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature's imperfect but tenacious survivors.

Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes - and you're left the same as you begun.

Does the giraffe know what he's for? Or care? Or even think about his place in things? A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.

Everything looks better at a distance. If you made it up, you have to live it down. Everything is compost. There is no they—only us. It's a mistake to believe everything you think. You can get used to anything. Sometimes things are just as bad as they seem. It helps if you always have somebody to kiss goodnight.

12--Lose Battles, But Win The War: Grand Strategy Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.