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“Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes. Now that biochemists have opened the black boxes and seen what is inside, they know the Darwinian theory is just a story, not a scientific explanation.”

Knows Has Beens Stories Able Black Know How Theory Evolution Complexes Boxes Treated Explanation Biologist Black Boxes

Book:Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds

Source: Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds

“The 'feminine' woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow.”

Body Grows Voice Forever Boxes Tiny Stuck Features Feminine Old Fashioned Pins Static Childlike Spirals Unchanging Ballerina Rotating

Book:Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

“When I was a young boy, I loved spending hours in St. Franics Xavier's school library at Saint Louis University. The feel of the books in my hands and the magical new worlds I discovered always drew me back to that fantastic place. Each time I visited, I could expect to find a new adventure and from time to time use my imagination to revisit my favorite place and enjoy Green Eggs and Ham in a house, with a mouse, on a train, on a plane, in a box, with a fox.”

“Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point.”

Want Should Party Missing Politician Boxes Voters Gang Ballots Guessing Second Guessing

Author:Nick Clegg

“You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.”

World Play Success Sports Practice Learning Player Basketball Boxes Being The Best Key To Success Recipe For Success Inspirational Basketball Second Best Free Throw Footwork

Author:Oscar Robertson

“A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop and for once our gangly starting center boxes out his man and times his jump perfectly, gathering the orange leather/from the air like a cherished possession.”

Men Air Kissing Basketball Shots Starting Boxes Possession Orange Hook Gathering Leather Rims

Book:The Living Fire

Source: The Living Fire

“You have to teach now - tell a kid how to box out, tell him how to pass, teach him footwork. Players don't understand that anymore.”

Kids Teach Player Basketball Boxes Footwork

Author:Oscar Robertson

“I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.”

Values Social Novel Regard Boxes Recycling Redeeming Social Service Recycled Social Values Cardboard Boxes

Author:Ellen Goodman

“Quit putting yourself in a little box by trying to live consistently with your past and explaining every little action you take. BE YOU. Fully. In this moment. Independent of what others may or may not 'expect' from you.”

Trying May Littles Moments Action Past Independent Boxes Quitting Self Discovery Be You Consistently Our Past Explaining Your Past

Author:Brian Johnson

“Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench.”

Security Car Information Internet Boxes Credit Cards Parks Benches Living On Credit Card Arranging Encryption Cardboard Boxes Park Benches

Author:Gene Spafford

“It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.”

Ifs Humans Stories Race Mankind Tragedy Boxes Human Race Apes Dump Petrol

Author:David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech

“Keep your dreams ALIVE. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how many people talk about you; they're going to throw dirt on you but that's alright, when they put you in that box (after your dead), they're going to put dirt on you some more, so that's okay - GO, don't be afraid, have NO FEAR.”

People Matter Hard Dream Spiritual Alive Okay Boxes Your Dreams Dirt No Fear Alright Have No Fear

Author:Tyler Perry

“People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.”

People Believe Magic Computer Boxes

Book:Secrets and lies: digital security in a networked world

Source: Secrets and lies: digital security in a networked world

“A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.”

Humans Inspiration Science Spirit Boxes Architecture Human Spirit Coffins

Book:Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1949-1959

Source: Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1949-1959

“The special effects team designed everything, which basically allowed me to stand on a green box and look and stay relatively expressionless and all these machines did the acting for me. Just the way I like it (laughs)”

Way Looks Funny Acting Laughing Team Special Effects Machines Green Boxes Special Effects

Author:Robert Pattinson

“I'd love to be able to fit in a box. Like one of those people who fit into small boxes. I'd love it.”

People Able Funny Fit Boxes

Author:Robert Pattinson

“I used to wear my mom's Wayfarers. When the people of Ray Ban noticed that, they sent me a box full of sunglasses, two and a half years ago. Now they're all gone. They've disappeared during trips, many were also stolen from me, the rest I lost again and again. Now I have only one pair left.”

People Life Years Two Used Lost Left Half Gone Mom Years Ago Boxes My Mom Pairs Rays Again And Again Stolen Bans Sunglasses Half A Year Ray Bans

Author:Robert Pattinson

“I fell in love with Erica Kane the summer before my freshman year of high school. Like all red-blooded teen American boys, I'd come home from water polo practice and eat a box of Entenmann's Pop'Ems donut holes in front of the TV while obsessively fawning over 'All My Children' and Erica, her clothes, and her narcissistic attitude.”

Source: Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture

“It's not about thinking outside of the box. It's about realizing there is no box.”

Thinking Realizing Teaching Boxes

Author:Jari Askins

“Box gap is not a thing. If you need to back up to a mirror and bend over to find out how you look, you are playing to the wrong audience.”

Ifs Needs Looks Audience Mirrors Boxes Gaps Body Image

Author:Mike Tyson

“Every single player on the pitch is now in the Birmingham box, apart from two of them.”

Two Player Football Boxes Birmingham

Author:Paul Merson

“It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around.”

Knows Helping Turns Animal Rooms Industry Eating Standing Boxes Locals Consumers Streams Plates Steers Hamburgers Calves

Book:What Are People For?: Essays

Source: What Are People For?: Essays

“Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much confidence as if they had booked them at a box office.”

People Ifs Humans Heaven Human Beings Animal Fit Office Bird Boxes Beast Seats Pet Miscellaneous Box Office

Author:Leigh Hunt

“This is a Pandora's box, for endless litigation, for division in society setting one group against another, and we must for that reason, for community cohesion, resist this bill.”

Reason Community Groups Gay Bills Boxes Endless Setting Settings Division Gay Marriage Cohesion Pandora Pandora's Box

Author:Stewart Jackson

“To this culture warrior, gay marriage is not a vital issue. I don't believe the republic will collapse if Larry marries Brendan. However, it is clear that most Americans want heterosexual marriage to maintain its special place in American society. And as long as gays are not penalized in the civil arena, I think the folks should make the call at the ballot box. Traditional marriage is widely seen as a social stabilizer, and I believe that is true.”

“Women are like wine: I can only afford the really cheap ones that have the big, ugly boxes that leak.”

I Can Bigs Sex Wine Boxes Ugly Leaks

Author:Brad Wilkerson

“One day we'll have a system that includes the rights of the people to make money and keep it, rather than a system where you can vote for the fox or the wolf, but there's no little box that endorses the chickens. Our time will come, you can be sure of that.”

People Littles Democracy Rights One Day Vote Boxes Making Money Our Time Chickens Foxes

Author:Stuart Wilde

“Control your own time. Don't let it be done for you. If you are working off the in-box that is fed you, you are probably working on the priority of others.”

Ifs Done Time Boxes Priorities Feds

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“So sweep away the sand an' dry the ocean, an' just pack the moon an' stars up in a cardboard box. And stop the clouds from chimin', block the sun from shinin',an' paint the sky a deeper shade of blue, 'cause my world's over without you.”

World Stars Causes Sun Sky Sweet Moon Ocean Blue Paint Clouds Boxes Deeper Block Dry Sand Shade Packs Without You Sweet Love Cardboard Boxes

Author:Kenny Rogers

“But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box.”

People Country Democracy Privilege Boxes Novelists Usa Voting Assets Throwing Other Countries Finest Unbearable Ballots Humorists

Author:Mark Twain

“Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?”

Individual Slavery Privilege Boxes Voting Monopoly Ballots

Author:Benjamin Tucker

“Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”

People Lasts Night Technology Television Tired Boxes Staring Every Night Predictions Predicting Predicting The Future Science Technology

Author:Darryl F. Zanuck

“A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.”

Men Three Rights Gun Boxes Jury Miscellaneous Ballots

Author:Frederick Douglass

“In America, freedom and justice have always come from the ballot box, the jury box, and when that fails, the cartridge box.”

America Justice Failing Gun Boxes Jury Ballots America Freedom

Author:Steve Symms

“When I saw my box after that, it was even more special for me.”

Saws Special Boxes

Author:Petra Kvitova

“He does cry a lot. It's nothing new, nothing special! And actually I think everyone was crying in my box, so I think he wasn't the only one. I was crying, as well. But my dad is very emotional. I have that from him. It's my dad. He has a birthday tomorrow, so I'm just glad that he has a nice present.”

Thinking Wells Doe Nice Special Cry Emotional Dad Tomorrow My Dad Boxes Glad Nothing New

Author:Petra Kvitova

“Films have been my only passion in life. I have always been proud of making films and will continue taking pride in all my films. I have never made a movie I have not believed in. However, though I love all my films, one tends to get attached to films that do well. But I do not have any regrets about making films that did not really do well at the box office.”

Wells Has Beens Made Film Passion Regret Pride Proud Office Boxes Box Office

Author:Yash Chopra

“Sometimes the knowledge you've been given in school or by an elder - 'this is just the way it is' - keeps you from accomplishing because it traps you in a box in your mind and limits your freedom to deliver.”

Way Mind Sometimes School Given Limits Boxes Accomplishment Traps Elders Your Freedom

Author:Yanni

“The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us.”

Life Humans Self America Spiritual Life Is Growth Space Quality Car Possibility Tvs Environmental Athlete Boxes Architecture Senses Insult Gray Pollution American Life

Author:Susan Sontag

“It's easier to think outside the box if you don't draw one around yourself.”

Ifs Thinking Creativity Easier Draws Boxes Flexibility Outside The Box Think Outside The Box

Author:Jason Kravitz

“Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.”

Ifs Boxes Screens Ice Heat Sunshine Pale Pipe Bulbs Ice Hockey Disk Gliding

Author:Ella Maillart

“So I went ahead and made me a guitar. Igot me a cigar box, I cut me a round hole in the middle of it, takeme a little piece of plank, nailed it onto that cigar box, and I gotme some screen wire and I made me a bridge back there and raised itup high enough that it would sound inside that little box, and got mea tune out of it. I kept my tune and I played from then on.”

Littles Made Enough Sound Pieces Cutting Middle Raised Guitar Rounds Boxes Screens Holes Bridges Tunes Wire Cigar

Author:Lightnin' Hopkins

“Almost said 'theater'! But I know the blacks don't go! Unless it's that My Arms Are Too Short To Box With God production. Or The Wiz.”

Knows Said Arms Theater Productions Boxes Too Short Wiz

Author:Jimmy Pardo

“You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.”

Thinking Way Made Boxes

Author:Krishna Das

“It was like the moment before you open a present, still hidden inside its box and wrappings; while you're waiting to find out what it is, the eagerness and impatience and curiosity and anticipation grip you in an even stronger, more thrilling way than you feel after you find out what's inside.”

Way Feels Stills Moments Waiting Stronger Curiosity Boxes Anticipation Thrilling Impatience Eagerness Wrapping

Book:Lucky for Good

Source: Lucky for Good

“The only thing that I am concerned with in life is being an artist .. I had to suppress for so many years in high school because I was made fun of but now I'm completely insulated in my box of insanity and I can do whatever I like.”

Years Made I Can School Life Is Artist Fun Can Do High School Concerned Boxes Insanity Being An Artist

Author:Lady Gaga

“I could find David Beckham naked in a cardboard box on my doorstep and I would drop him off at the pound.”

Boxes Naked Pounds Doorstep Beckham Cardboard Boxes

Author:Olivia Wilde

“As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way.”

Way Steps Boxes Actresses

Author:Minnie Driver

“I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.”

People Thinking Originals Starting Boxes Being Yourself Outside The Box Being Original

Author:Miranda Lambert

“Boxers are hot, and by boxers I mean guys who box, not the underwear. So get rid of 'em!”

Mean Guy Hot Boxes Ems Underwear Boxers Mean Guy

Author:Carson Kressley

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