"Liberty will not long survive the total extinction……" — Samuel Adams

More Extinction Quotes

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• In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness. — Samuel Beckett
• There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should… — Heston Blumenthal
• Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens… — Wernher von Braun
• The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be… — Joseph de Maistre
• Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely… — Jean Dubuffet
• EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state. — Ambrose Bierce
• It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces… — Steven Weinberg
• [Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of… — Bertrand Russell
• The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long… — Samuel Adams
• Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress. — Stephen Jay Gould
• He who refuses to learn deserves extinction. — Hillel the Elder
• I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested… — Abraham Lincoln

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