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Descended Quotes by Charles Darwin
- Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.
- Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
- For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the…
- The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful…
- We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an…
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- From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. — Winston Churchill
- This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself. — Juvenal
- We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid… — Evelyn Underhill
- From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie… — Winston Churchill
- On Sunday mornings, as the dawn burned into day, swarms of gulls descended on the uncollected trash, hovering and dropping in the… — Edward Conlon
- She's descended from a long line her mother listened to. — Gypsy Rose Lee
- When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted… — Epicurus
- It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded… — Lenny Bruce
- When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in… — Yuri Gagarin
- There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately… — William Jennings Bryan
- For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed… — Zachary Taylor