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When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the…

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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…
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would…
If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as…
So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and…
The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and…
It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or…
It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about…
Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then 15? months…
May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited…
The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at…
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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When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine… — Charles Darwin
The world turned into a big black hole while my daughter was on the verge of life and death. — Ziauddin Yousafzai
The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the… — Lester R. Brown
A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet. — Katharine Lee Bates
She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force… — Nicole Krauss
If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if… — Jodi Picoult
She was his north star, the fixed point round which his world turned. For as long as his heart beat, or hers,… — David Gemmell
In a world turned upside-down, where everything was wrong, bizarre, you could at least look up at the sky and see normality.… — Alex Scarrow
Ordinary life did not stop just because kings rose and fell, Mosca realized. People adapted. If the world turned upside down, everyone… — Frances Hardinge
...the whole world turned into an all-you-can-eat buffet... — Jonathan Maberry
I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the… — Liz Murray

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