"What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws,……" — Alfred Russel Wallace
"What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters"
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Alfred Russel Wallace
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26 Quotes by Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace has 26 quotes on this site.
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In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the…
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In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their…
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It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as…
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Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly. To expect…
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I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.
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To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words…
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There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the…
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What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
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Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race
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On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or…
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Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time
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To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity
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More Duty Quotes
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
— Saint Augustine
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
— Saint Augustine
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right…
— Charles Babbage
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do…
— John Banville
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We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and…
— Roy Barnes
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We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go…
— Dave Barry
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An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as…
— Jacques Barzun
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is…
— Samuel Adams
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Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators…
— Gary Bauer
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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