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Wallace's sales agent, back in London, heard mutterings from some naturalists that young Mr. Wallace ought to quit theorizing and stick to…
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[Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as…
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Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.
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Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting…
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Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.
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The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.
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Islands are where species go to die.
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Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered…
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Heatstroke is an important and useful addition to the library on climate change, bringing insights from deep-time ecological research to help illuminate…
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To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something…
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By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.
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Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both),…
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I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home…
— Jo Brand
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In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating…
— Benjamin Carson
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Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.
— Adam Levine
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I have to have an adjustment before I go into the ring. I do believe in chiropractic. I found that going to…
— Evander Holyfield
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I can't wait to ride my electric scooter, walk my dog, watch TV, be bored … and I'm gonna put [my Oscar]…
— Quvenzhane Wallis
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That's what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart - still before I go on stage - crashing…
— Billy Crudup
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In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest.…
— Doris Lessing
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I'm a Christian girl. I pray every night and before meals and before I go on stage not to fall.
— Chanel Iman
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I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.
— Nick Lowe
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I’m a hypochondriac. Before I go all the way, I send the girl to the doctor and check them for everything. My…
— Brett Ratner
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Every night before I go to sleep I say out loud three things that I am grateful for, all the significant, insignificant,…
— Carrie Newcomer
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