Creatures Quotes

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If patterns of ones and zeros were 'like' patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer… — Thomas Pynchon
Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It just divides and… — George Wald
Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development of the mind,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving… — Alphonsus Liguori
Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures... — John Owen
With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right… — Adolf Hitler
Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the… — Hans Zinsser
Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire for… — Sigmund Freud
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely… — Richard Dawkins
If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature. — Abraham Lincoln
The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form… — Benjamin Rush
But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him. And you have to admit… — Dinesh D'Souza
It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures. — M. Scott Peck
Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable… — Charles Darwin
What you hold in your hand is proof of man's power - against which our strength means nothing. It has the force of 100 spears.… — Charlton Heston
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the image of God.… — Teresa of Avila
The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public consciousness has… — Barbara Ehrenreich
It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion… — Mahatma Gandhi

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