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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as…
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So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and…
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It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully…
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I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who…
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The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental…
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount…
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Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would…
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By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
— James Buchan
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Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that…
— Charles Dickens
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When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a…
— Fritjof Capra
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"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Chymia, or Alchemy and Spagyrism, is the art of resolving compound bodies into their principles and of combining these again.
— Georg Ernst Stahl
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The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.
— Leo Tolstoy
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What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all…
— Lord Byron
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