Quotes with species

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  • Charles Dickens It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Charles Darwin It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • David Attenborough It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.
    David Attenborough
    English veteran broadcaster and naturalist (1926 - )
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  • Arianna Huffington It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Ayn Rand Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
    The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Abraham Myerson Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.
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  • B. F. Skinner Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Bill Cosby Men and women belong to different species, and communication between them is a science still in its infancy.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species - it is the tigress and lioness in you - which tends to defend when attacked.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Henry Fuseli Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Carl Sagan Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves, but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 54 min 25 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Carl Sagan Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Voltaire Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Alfred Marshall Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
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  • Aldous Huxley Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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