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Michael Dickinson Quotes

Only flies have true halteres. In fact, the scientific term for flies, 'diptera,' means 'two wings.' Most insects, including bees, have two pairs of wings for a total of four. In flies, the hindwing pairs have been transformed through evolution into the halteres.

Michael Dickinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1963

Topics

Wings Evolution True Two Insects

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

Political Environment Violence Create

I've always wanted to be a mom. I had a great relationship with mine. I'm ready to pass on to my child all the great love that my mom had for me.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Love Relationship Great Child Mom

There is an army of the informed wanting to be more informed.

Army More Informed Wanting

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

Writing Looking Write Searching Keep

I start writing at 7.30 A.M. and write till noon. I've never written a single word after 5.00 P.M.

Writing Start Never Write Single

I try to have my voice be heard, but not on a regular basis on TV.

Voice Try TV Heard Regular Basis

You can't truly hear your own voice until the shouting around you disappears. New ideas and possibilities - our own ideas, our own possibilities - will occur only when we step away from the Virtual Panopticon.

John Twelve Hawks

Step Ideas Voice Possibilities You

My family's a ruling family.

I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me.

Equality Me Deep Gender Long Go

My father's father died when he was a teenager, and dad went to work to support his mother and two siblings as a carpenter and as a builder's mule, hauling carts of lumber to construction sites when it was too icy for the mules to climb the hills.

Maryanne Trump Barry

Work Father Mother Support Climb

Literature, of course, is not a contest.

Literature Course Contest

I've definitely become more aware of the penal system and more aware of what life could be like inside a prison.

Life Prison Become More Inside Like

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