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Compared with mammals, birds have relatively large eyes. In simple terms, a bigger eye means better vision, and excellent vision is essential for avoiding collisions in flight, or for capturing fast-moving or camouflaged prey. Birds' eyes, however, are deceptive - they are bigger than they look.

Tim Birkhead

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VisionEyesSimpleBirdsEyeBetter

I think that a lot of people in all walks of life have the impression, of course, that, 'I specialize in something. I can't - I don't have the time to read other things. I'll just go to pure entertainment when I'm relaxing, and then I'll come back to my pure specialty.' That produces - that attitude produces idiot savants, unfortunately.

Robert J. Shiller

LifeAttitudeTimePeopleThinkGo

If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a flop, there will be no value to GDP. But government spending all gets counted as contributing to economic growth. That's why in the early days of creating these measurements, some people didn't want to count government spending.

Robert Higgs

GrowthMoneyGovernmentValuePeople

If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or demonstrations, you need to respond to the people's desperate need for change.

Mohamed ElBaradei

ChangeGovernmentPeopleYouWant

But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year; it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.

Ludacris

BlessingMoneyWorldMaking Money

Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

Joseph Jarman

CreativeMusiciansRememberWell

I'm a really happy guy. I have a great career, a wonderful wife and family.

Jon Taffer

FamilyGreatWifeHappyCareerGuy

I was so shy, I didn't have friends 'til 16 or something.

Disha Patani

FriendsShySomething

I worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler.

Dick Van Dyke

ThroughNightclubsWorked

I like to undress women - not to dress them. You know, like Manet's 'Olympia' or Helmut Newton's photographs - naked women with shoes. This is what I am trying to do.

Christian Louboutin

WomenShoesI AmDressTryingYou

Cheese steaks are the gastronomic icons of this ethnic city.

Bryan Q. Miller

CityCheeseEthnicIcons

The thing I want to really say is that I still mess up. I still go out there and say things on TV that I know the Lord is like, 'Sherri what are you doing?' but I know I can go back and get on my knees and say, 'Lord forgive me.' I know he will never leave me nor forsake me. The wonderful thing is He answers my prayers in spite of me.

Sherri Shepherd

MeDoingYouBackI CanKnow

I've sat down with Donald Trump in an hour-and-a-half-long meeting with several of the representatives; he was very engaging. He listened to our concerns and our thoughts. I find him very parental.

Scott DesJarlais

ThoughtsFindDownMeetingHimHe

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