The earliest and most primitive known members of every order already have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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You've got criminal courts and child welfare officials refusing to do their jobs and protect children so they can shift the cases… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
Sculpture and painting are very justly called liberal arts; a lively and strong imagination, together with a just observation, being absolutely necessary… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Traditionally Marxism attracts the oppressed. This, however, is not the case in the Arab nation... The socialist programs in Arab history did… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo.… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
Meaning can be usually be approximated, but often by sacrificing style. When I review my translations into Spanish, that's what I'm most… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
We need a more holistic approach in which we take account of society's most vulnerable sectors. We shouldn't just do broad averaging… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
In any case, suffice it to say I enjoyed hearing about faraway places. I had stocked up a whole store of these… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have but nothing to say to young girls. They're fine to look at, in the way I would look at a… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
When a physician is called to a patient, he should decide on the diagnosis, then the prognosis, and then the treatment. ...… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Sure you can manage that broom, Potter?" said a cold, drawling voice. Draco Malfoy had arrived for a closer look, Crabbe and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but… — Miguel de Icaza Copy Share Image
Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures… The separate… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
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Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature…Ultimately, the… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
With polio, we've gone several years with no polio in all of Africa, but now with this we're having to go and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The case against religion is the responsibility of God for the sufferings of mankind, which makes it impossible to believe the good… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's difficult to tell whether it's… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
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I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
Russia recently passed a law - I think a terrible law - which says you have to store all of the data… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
You see, in Washington they have these bodies, Senate and the House of Representatives. That is for the convenience of the visitors.… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
When we're not a party, we sometimes file as amicus, as friend of the court, 25, 30 times a term, sometimes more.… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
I believe that a country, Russia in this case, which can defend the honour and dignity of its citizens, protect their lives,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must… — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
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