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Descent Quotes by Mark Twain
- I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I…
- It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from…
More Descent Quotes
- Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. — Ambrose Bierce
- I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who… — Charles Darwin
- I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii. — Tia Carrere
- Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray... — Richard Wilbur
- Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery. — Mahatma Gandhi
- Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another… — Thomas Hunt Morgan
- Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of… — Garrison Keillor
- As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout… — Saint Augustine