Quotes About Selection

natural selection doesn't even care about our short-term happiness.

Darwin once summed up natural selection in ten words: "[M]ultiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

Natural selection doesn't "want" us to be happy, after all; it just "wants" us to be productive, in its narrow sense of productive.

Como dicen los gángsters, no es nada personal, Max. Por supuesto, en esa aseveración hay algo de verdad y algo de mentira. Siempre es algo personal. Hemos llegado indemnes a través de un túnel del tiempo porque es algo personal. Te he elegido a ti porque es algo personal

A woman's difficulty is that she has a much wider choice of men to provide her with genes than she has of long-term partners. She could probably persuade many men of her choice to give her their genes — it takes only a few minutes of sex, after all. Her options for a long-term partner, though, are much more limited.

One of the criteria that a woman can add to her list when selecting a mate, therefore, is his ability to overcome her physical resistance

There are always choices. But sometimes there are no good ones.

sometimes there are no choices but poor ones.

Your mother was a good mate for Fitz. She gave him what he needed. But this is the woman I would have chosen for us.

I don't finish books I don't like. There's too many good ones out there waiting to be found.

But then, you probably have a greater variety of memories to choose from...One does not gather many unique memories, hauled out on a beach.

restricted to thirty students.

No one picks a friend for us; we come together by choice.

There's much more. There's all that goes beyond – all ... that is Elsewhere – and all that goes back, and back, and back. I received all of those, when I was selected. And here in this room, all alone, I re-experience them again and again. It is how wisdom comes. And how we shape our future.

Well..., Jonas had to stop and think it through. If everything's the same, then there are no choices! I want to wake up in the morning and DECIDE things! A blue tunic, or a red one?

There's much more. There's all that goes beyond—all that is Elsewhere—and all that goes back, and back, and back. I received all of those, when I was selected. And here in this room, all alone, I re-experience them again and again. It is how wisdom comes. And how we shape our future." He rested for a moment, breathing deeply. "I am so weighted with them," he said.

If everyting's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! (Jonas) It's the choosing that's imortant, isn't it? The Giver asked him.

If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!

He sat in his dwelling alone, watching through the window, seeing children at play, citizens bicycling home from uneventful days at work, ordinary lives free of anguish because he had been selected, as others before him had, to bear their burden.

There's much more. There's all that goes beyond—all that is Elsewhere—and all that goes back, and back, and back. I received all of those, when I was selected. And here in this room, all alone, I re-experience them again and again. It is how wisdom comes. And how we shape our future.

You're right," he said. "But then everyone would be burdened and pained. They don't want that. And that's the real reason The Receiver is so vital to them, and so honored. They selected me—and you—to lift that burden from themselves.

There are lots of people in this world, Moss, but you can't be in love with them all.

And what would you like, Sharie? asked Miss Mush. What do you have? asked Sharie. Potato salad. What else is there? asked Sharie. Nothing said Miss Mush. Okay said Sharie. I'll have that. Potato salad? asked Miss Mush. No,nothing. said Sharie.

Yes," Leslie agreed. "Rondi showed excellent taste by not wearing the hat or the boots. They go so well together.