Quotes About Evolution

Without inner change there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.

The Proto-Canaanite ... seems to have employed 27 different characters. The Ugaritic alphabet from around the 14th century BCE uses 30 characters ... Phoenician had by the 12th century BCE already dropped five characters ... 22 consonantal phonemes.

The Tiberian system became more and more dominant until it completely ousted its Palestino-Tiberian counterpart around the middle of the fourteenth century.

According to some scholars, after 1400 BCE ... Ya'udic and Aramaic separated from ... Canaanite group.

Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation.

Most intellectual development depends upon new readings of old texts. I am all for putting new wine in old bottles, especially if the pressure of the new wine makes the bottles explode.

Consider the nature of a city. It is a vast repository of time.

Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.

But you are mine no longer. You are a man, with a man's concerns, and

Part of you recognizes you should change something about your actions, but another part is still attached to the old ways, no matter how uncomfortable they are. This is normal. This is part of being human.

it matters not what we have been but this an always this: what we shall be.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become.

Leave wreckage by the roadside. Burn all decayed tissue. Tightrope from which we emerge. —DAWN LUNDY MARTIN, GOOD STOCK STRANGE BLOOD

The evolution of income can be looked at from three different perspectives: growth, poverty, and inequality. Growth is about the average and how it changes, poverty about the bottom, and inequality about how widely incomes are spread across families or people. The

Angus Stevenson

one always seemed to be getting too old for something.

Everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

Parents are only good as parents at a certain stage of their children's lives, she reflected.

Perhaps what I was registering was nothing more than the passage of time, to which one should pay great attention, lest one remain fixed in past expectations, without noticing how foolish one had become.

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.

The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still.

Never try to change a person. We all evolve as life goes on. Love people as they are.

It was my experience that the printing on anything I picked up, from maps to telephone books, had gotten smaller every year.