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162 quotes by 152 authors

Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy… — E. O. Wilson
My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the… — Martin Van Buren
Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise… — Joseph Story
The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of… — James Madison
If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of democracy should be… — Herbert Croly
ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity. — Ambrose Bierce
Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet. — Aimee Mullins
Sometimes when you play a character, you can feel it in your body. And I felt like I had characteristics of my dog: the way… — Calista Flockhart
America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as the art form… — Thomas M. Disch
Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate… — Emile M. Cioran
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to… — Alfred Russel Wallace
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details, which must be attended to if rules have to be… — Alexis de Tocqueville
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to… — Plato
What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character… — Plato
What we've found is a whole new pattern of change that we hadn't thought of before. They changed their attitude toward the colony over time… — William M. Kelso
We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions,… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The frying pan you should give to your enemy. Food should not be prepared in fat. Our bodies are adapted to a stone age diet… — Denis Parsons Burkitt
I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when not engaged in… — Paul Feyerabend
Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not vie for our… — E. O. Wilson
To be alive, to able to see, to walk...it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle. — Arthur Rubinstein

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