"Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in……" — Charles Darwin
"Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends."
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288 Quotes by Charles Darwin
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an…
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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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Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the…
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If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their…
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So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special…
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The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their…
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It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in…
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It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain…
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Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then…
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May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are…
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The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that…
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Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one…
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I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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He has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This…
— Albert J. Beveridge
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Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago…
— Adam Gopnik
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It was in Cihangir that i first learned Istanbul was not an anonymous multitude of walled-in lives - a jungle…
— Orhan Pamuk
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I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in…
— Aravind Adiga
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The Gulag Archipelago, 'he informed an incredulous world that the blood-maddened Jewish terrorists had murdered sixty-six million victims in Russia…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Canada regards herself as responsible to all mankind for the peculiar ecological balance that now exists so precariously in the…
— Pierre Trudeau
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He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He…
— Neal Shusterman
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I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most…
— Michael Leavitt
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of…
— S. Jay Olshansky
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To and for the establishment, promotion and development of a Secret Society, the true aim and object whereof shall be…
— Cecil Rhodes
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A family seems exactly like an archipelago. All part of the same whole, but still seperate and alone and always…
— The Descendants
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