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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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It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or…
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the…
— George Berkeley
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This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.
— William Ames
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I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose…
— Karl Kraus
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It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are…
— Pope John Paul II
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For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is…
— Kevin Bales
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In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us…
— Kenneth S. Deffeyes
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Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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