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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as…
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So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and…
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It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully…
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The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental…
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount…
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Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would…
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Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse,…
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Until a man selects a DEFINITE PURPOSE IN LIFE, he dissipates his energies & spreads his thoughts over so many subjects &…
— Napoleon Hill
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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection…
— Lytton Strachey
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The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice…
— Abraham Hayward
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Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of…
— Galen Rowell
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It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice
— David Landes
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Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines,…
— Egon Friedell
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God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
— Austin O'Malley
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