If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best… — Plato Copy Share Image
Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so;… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The promise of God is that you are His son. Her offspring. Its likeness. His equal. Ah...here is where you get hung… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
We're basically this very young species, only 200,000 years old. We're one of the newcomers, and we're going through the same process… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
The responsibility which rests upon man is proportional to the ability which he possesses and the opportunity which he faces. Perhaps that… — Kirtley F. Mather Copy Share Image
Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have… — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
My kids are the offspring of people who are doing reasonably well and live in the centre of London and the chances… — Claudia Winkleman Copy Share Image
I beg your pardon for questioning your judgement," she said. "It is nothing to me, after all, if it proves faulty. I… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
God truly is our Father, the Father of the spirits of all mankind. We are his literal offspring and are formed in… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
When the husband and wife are healthy, and free from inherited weaknesses and diseases that might be transmitted with injury to their… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it's just genes, isn't it? All of our existence is spent… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
“There would definitely be way fewer instances of cheating, if the average couple did not have sex only when the woman feels… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Faith, in order to be genuine and of any real value, must be the offspring of that divine love which Jesus manifested… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear… — Horace Copy Share Image
Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother's love does… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps -… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of… — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
Sharp and fell remorse, the offspring of my sin! Why do you, O God, lacerate my heart so late? Why, O boding… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
There is an obvious evolutionary explanation for the scarcity of altruistic saints: Without a strong predilection for their own interests, our ancestors… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
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