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  • Alfred Russel Wallace In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Bruno Rossi In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected.
    Bruno Rossi
     
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  • Edgar Allan Poe In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Ambrose Bierce In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
    Source: The Devil's Dictionary
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Adele In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Carlos Slim In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.
    Carlos Slim
    Mexican business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1940 - )
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  • Ambrose Bierce In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Aristotle In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Bill Cosby In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to discipline a child is still a mystery to most fathers and... mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Blair Underwood In terms of the black female audience, usually if you're true to that character but more so in your body of work if you've proven that you love your sisters and you proven you will come back home like in 42.4% they'll give you a pass when you jump ship. I hear it all the time.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Anne Sophie Swetchine In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
    Anne Sophie Swetchine
    Russian writer (1782 - 1857)
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  • Mark Twain Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Thomas à Kempis Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Robert M. Pirsig It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.
    Robert M. Pirsig
    American writer and philosopher (1928 - 2017)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Andre Breton It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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