The theory of natural selection reduces to a banal truth: if a kind of creature flourishes in a kind of situation, then… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I'm a bit of a weird creature... I'm self taught and went to a regular film school, not art school, and I… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
The first voyagers to the stars will be creatures whose life cycle is matched to the voyage: the aeons involved in traversing… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, don’t put a character in a… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
Natural selection is just three factors - over-production, variation, and inheritance combined to produce adaptation to changing local environments. It's not a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It is increasingly obvious that environmentally sustainable solutions to world hunger can only emerge as people eat more plant foods and fewer… — John Robbins Copy Share Image
COMMEMORATION Blessed art Thou, O Lord who didst bring forth of water moving creatures that have life, and whales, and winged fowls:… — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
Just supposing for the sake of the argument that there is a being of such a kind as that He may with… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
All creatures, day and night, make manifestation of Allah. Some of them know what they are doing and are aware of their… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Animals are sentient creatures. I love them very much. I do not feel that we have the right to torture, murder, and… — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is!… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
As the first human to land on any world outside the Earth, and probably the first living creature of any sort to… — Hugh Downs Copy Share Image
I didn’t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
What is God? The eternal one life underneath all the forms of life. What is love? To feel the presence of the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Perhaps the time has come to formulate a moral code which would govern our relations with the great creatures of the sea… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Linnaeus had it constantly in mind:'The closer we get to know the creatures around us, the clearer is the understanding we obtain… — Sten Lindroth Copy Share Image
Bacon is clearly a food made by the Nazis to fatten up Americans. It has no nutritional value, is full of fat,… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
We often think ourselves inconsistent creatures, when we are the furthest from it, and all the variety of shapes and contradictory appearances… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can't both be right. The one who is wrong will… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It is not a sentimental, but a grimly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial globe with creatures other than ourselves,… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have… — Isaac Copy Share Image
If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Agreements. Specifically, a treaty ratified by all the orders of whimsical like forms who dwell here that affords a measure of security… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
If ever thou shalt love, In the sweet pangs of it remember me; For such as I am all true lovers are,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
People never cease to project on to God their individual and collective obsessions, so that they can appropriate and make use of… — Olivier Clement Copy Share Image
I suppose being the kind of creatures we [people] are, we like to censor the past, and are selective, or want to… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I just sat there. I just held Shelby's hand. There was no noise, no tremble, just peace. Oh god. I realize as… — Robert Harling Copy Share Image
Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A human being is a very social creature, and ninety percent of what he does is done only because other people are… — John Vaillant Copy Share Image
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