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The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism
Carl Rogers
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An organism at war with itself is doomed.
Carl Sagan
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Man is not an organism; he is an intelligence served by organs.
W. D. Hamilton
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Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.
John Tooby
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Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.
Kevin Kelly
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In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.
Kevin Kelly
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There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms.
Janine Benyus
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Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.
Jerome Bruner
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Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
Kevin Kelly
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Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations.
Joseph Brodsky
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Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.
Sebastian Faulks
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We're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're the amoebas.
Danny Hillis
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A poem is an instant of lucidity in which
the entire organism participates.
Charles Simic
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The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism.
George Orwell