selects

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Examples

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends. Charles Darwin

The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more. Emily Dickinson

I think it can be shown that there is such an unerring power at work in Natural Selection (the title of my book), which selects exclusively for the good of each organic being. Charles Darwin

Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches. T. E. Hulme

Whereas economic man maximises, selects the best alternative from among all those available to him, his cousin, administrative man, satisfices, looks for a course of action that is satisfactory or 'good enough'. Herbert Simon

He who selects coconut with great care ends up getting a bad coconut. Swahili Proverb