Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
“Excuse me, Mr. Yeti, I know we locked you up in a cage and you're pissed as hell, but do you think… — Nikita King Copy Share Image
I think Obama sees everything through one lens. Doing nothing in the face of the slaughter in Syria is not only shameful,… — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
Happy he who far from business persuits Tills and re-tills his ancestral lands With oxen of his own breeding Having no slavish… — Horace Copy Share Image
Paris is one of the fashion capitals of the world and such an incredible breeding ground for designers. You can't help but… — Alice Temperley Copy Share Image
No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home.… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a… — Plato Copy Share Image
There was a concept a long time ago that you would do a different type of reactor called a "fast reactor," that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“It’s almost funny, isn’t it?” “What is?” “How some animals are worth more than others?” “Well,” he handed Konrad a sugar cube… — Amanda Lance Copy Share Image
To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way… — Barbara Hurd Copy Share Image
“One of the problems with climate change, global warming and global air pollution is that it may change the frequency and intensity… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Whether we accept it or not, this will likely be the century that determines what the optimal human population is for our… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
Although eugenics flourished in Nazi Germany, the ideal of a blond-haired, blue-eyed master race wasn’t Adolf Hitler’s. It may surprise many to… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
This is an age of science. ... All important fields of activity from the breeding of bees to the administration of an… — Wickliffe Rose Copy Share Image
The relation of eugenics to British psychiatry bears examination. The primary controlling body for psychiatry in England is the British National Association… — Jim Keith Copy Share Image
We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
I think of moral beauty as what is the good and the just - terms perhaps best defined by their opposite: evil.… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
The frequent employment of one's will power masters all organs of movement and trains them to perform feats which otherwise would have… — George Hackenschmidt Copy Share Image
When there is love, there is no duty. When you love your wife, you share everything with her-your property, your trouble, your… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The study of eugenics had its beginning in Germany, sometime after the mid-19th century mark, stimulated by volkish concerns for Aryan racial… — Jim Keith Copy Share Image
Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A humpback can transmit a sound across a whole ocean. But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a whole ocean,… — Rose George Copy Share Image
The problems to be faced are vast and complex, but come down to this: 6.6 billion people are breeding exponentially. The process… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Farmers since the beginning of time have been feeding the world very successfully without systematically abusing animals or destroying the environment. But… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Altogether at least sixty thousand people were sterilized because of Laughlin’s efforts. At the peak of the movement in the 1930s, some… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't… — George M. Church Copy Share Image
She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry that it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Like faith, marriage is a mystery. The person you're committed to spending your life with is known and yet unknown, at the… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
![“[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to…” quote by Adam Sedgwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/76d/adam-sedgwick-38188_breeding_vestiges-begins-from-principles-which-ar_743932.jpg)
