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Organs arise not by design but by selection. Nature makes many trials and experiments with organisms, combining organs variously; where the combination meets environmental needs the organism survives and perpetuates its like; where the combination fails, the organism is weeded out; as time goes on, organisms are more and more intricately and successfully adapted to their surroundings.
The Story of Philosophy
Will Durant
So we reminded them: great leaders make leaders. **You don’t want to have a hundred keys; you win when you end up with only one—the key to the front door.** Once they’d turned over some of these responsibilities, they’d have more time to make their own contributions.
Unreasonable Hospitality
Will Guidara
One of the most powerful kinds of copying is to copy something from one field into another. History is so full of chance discoveries of this type that it's probably worth giving chance a hand by deliberately learning about other kinds of work. You can take ideas from quite distant fields if you let them be metaphors.
How to Do Great Work
Paul Graham
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