"Rumour has it that the gardens of natural……" — David Lack
"Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which might disturb the orderly classifications of the taxonomist."
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David Lack
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them…
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Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.
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On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist…
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Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use…
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... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue…
— Albert Einstein
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Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion…
— William Shakespeare
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— Ann Coulter
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Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext…
— Jean Anouilh
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Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when…
— Edward Abbey
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"Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free…
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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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