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... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly…
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I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the…
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Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great…
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Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no…
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It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical…
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The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
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I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of…
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The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one…
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The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill…
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The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except…
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They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard…
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Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great…
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We are completely unaware of our true nature because we identify ourselves with our body, our emotions and our thoughts, thus losing…
— Jean Klein
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All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly…
— Henry Walter Bates
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"Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which it occurs-whether…
— Max Wertheimer
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We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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I welcome opposing viewpoints, but I should warn you that you'll be facing off against the 2nd-place finisher at the 1981 Charleston…
— Stephen Colbert
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It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the…
— Georges Cuvier
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It's time for the bully pulpit of the White House to bring the gangstas in, put them around the table and let…
— Maxine Waters
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Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a…
— Bill Bryson
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And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper…
— David Hume
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I am a believer in change peu a` peu (little by little) since drastic changes, including lots of changes made all at…
— Mireille Guiliano
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were…
— Harold H. Greene
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