Specimen Quotes

47 quotes by 46 authors

To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of… — Walter Kirn
I always wanted to be an actor, so part of me is split between the artistic side and the physical side, but then physically I… — Unknown Author
If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be… — Sylvia Plath
So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population… — Charles Lyell
Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man. — Scott Brooks
And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to… — Lennart Nilsson
He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried… — Samuel Johnson

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