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Wallace's sales agent, back in London, heard mutterings from some naturalists that young Mr. Wallace ought to quit theorizing and stick to…
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[Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as…
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Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.
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Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting…
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Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.
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The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.
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Islands are where species go to die.
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Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered…
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Heatstroke is an important and useful addition to the library on climate change, bringing insights from deep-time ecological research to help illuminate…
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To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something…
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By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.
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Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both),…
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People think that I reached the top overnight; well, it took me fourteen years. I was twenty-nine before I really made it.…
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When I wrote my blog and went to fashion week, I got a lot of shade from older editors about paying my…
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If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I…
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I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd attract more critics than your average person,…
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What the hell, I paid my dues.
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
— Victoria Pratt
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I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.
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Just know that I was once considered just a dreamer... Then I paid my dues and turned so many doubters to believers...
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I don't understand this phrase 'I've paid my dues.' We didn't have any money and lived on peanut butter and jelly, and…
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I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.
— Richard O'Brien
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I really have paid my dues. When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days, I remind myself of that.
— Rita Ora
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I've done stuff to pay my dues and that's what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor…
— Rachael Taylor
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