Richard Owen Quotes
Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.
Quotes to Explore
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.
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At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and I can yet recall not just an abiding sense of place, but the keen smells, the sensory responses to the events of that past.
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The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.
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The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
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Yearly data put the rest of the noise into perspective. Most of the weekly or monthly random up-and-down movements get smoothed out. Ultimately, this is where long-term investors should be focused.
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I'm married to a white man, and then my daughter came out looking like the whitest white child with blonde hair and blue eyes. And I'm like, 'Omigosh, now what am I going to do?' She has my mom's features and is lighter than my husband. And my boy is browner than I am. Brown eyes and really tan.
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You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was 'the scourge of God.'
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I am not surprised that men are not thankful to me; but I wonder that they are not grateful to God for the good which he has made me the instrument of conveying to my fellow-creatures.
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The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.
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Organizations worried about the potential for e-voting problems have long-advocated for audit procedures by which votes cast by e-voting machines could be verified through audit trails.
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I've always loved the song 'It Might as Well Be Spring'.
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I really like kids.
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I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.
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If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.
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Guys like me, we have a different style that makes it hard to break in easily. When I was 18, 19, I felt like I was just a boy, body-wise and mentality-wise. I had to fix everything together.
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Blogging requires consistency, and you need to have some time on your hands, which I don't really have.
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But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.
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Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.
