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Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants. But this is… — Ernst Mayr
As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me. — Bebe Moore Campbell
Being a good steward of your pain. . . . It involves being alive to your life. It involves taking the risk of being open,… — Frederick Buechner
In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated.… — Frederick Buechner
My campaign is based upon the proposition that the answers to the problems which currently plague our cities, our towns, and our homes, are not… — Jerry Springer
Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead. — Emmet Fox
It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we… — Hugh MacDiarmid
I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent… — Danica Patrick
Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of… — Norman Borlaug
There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. Humanism contends that instead of… — Corliss Lamont
The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned from… — Frederic Bastiat
The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative. He… — Robert Briffault
Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact.... In Indianapolis they have come up with a most… — Malcolm Forbes
If we could only make our hands move as actively as our tongues, what wonders we could accomplish! Almost everyone loves to hear his own… — John Wanamaker
Every time we hold our tongues instead of returning the sharp retort, show patience with another's faults, show a little more love and kindness, we… — Connie Foster
We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of… — Dario Fo
Automobiles will start to decline almost as soon as the last shot is fired in World War II. The name of Igor Sikorsky will be… — Harry Bruno
The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes… — John Gierach
Meanwhile, spiritual submissiveness brings about the wiser use of our time, talents, and gifts as compared with our laboring diligently but conditionally to establish our… — Neal A. Maxwell
Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one-all red. — Peter H. Reynolds

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