In general, the larger the breeding population, the slower the rate of evolution.
Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word "psychology" was ever invented. It works, too.
The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.
Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.
Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
. . . enforced Christianity was the surest breeding ground for unbelief. Many men either became unbelievers or met unbelievers during their military service.
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
Television, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation.
Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry.
The breeding of shepherd dogs is the breeding of working dogs; and this must always be the aim, or we shall cease to produce shepherd dogs.
Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom good maxims have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in.
No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.
Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion.
I think video village is bullshit. It's like it's a breeding ground for people to nitpick and feel important. It's just such a weird dynamic.
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.
The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it.
One of the problems, and it's one which is obviously going to get worse, is that all the people at the party are either the children or the grandchildren or the great-grandchildren of the people who wouldn't leave in the first place, and because of all the business about selective breeding and regressive genes and so on, it means that all the people now at the party are either absolutely fanatical partygoers, or gibbering idiots, or, more and more frequently, both.