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«God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity»
Author: Christina of Sweden (Queen) | About: God | Keywords: adapting, foolishness, simile, similes
«Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal»
Author: George Gaylord Simpson | About: Change, World | Keywords: adapting, evolve
«I measure what's going on, and I adapt to it. I try to get my ego out of the way. The market is smarter than I am so I bend.»
«Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.»
«There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.»
«In Latin America, the pace is slower, it is more technical. In Europe, it is faster, but I haven't had any problems adapting to it.»
«HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.So skilled the parson was in homiletics That all his normal purges and emetics To medicine the spirit were compounded With a most just discrimination founded Upon a rigorous examination Of tongue and pulse and heart and respiration. Then, having diagnosed each one's condition, His scriptural specifics this physician Administered --his pills so efficacious And pukes of disposition so vivacious That souls afflicted with ten kinds of Adam Were convalescent ere they knew they had 'em. But Slander's tongue --itself all coated --uttered Her bilious mind and scandalously muttered That in the case of patients having money The pills were sugar and the pukes were honey. --_Biography of Bishop Potter_»
«Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.»
«I'm disgusted with having to deal with the commercial side of our band at the moment and as a reaction, I'm becoming more uptight and complaining more. And it feels like I'm adapting a rock star attitude.»
«Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.»

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