Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
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In the vacant places We will build with new bricks
T. S. Eliot
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We declare war against socialism, not because it is socialism, but because it has opposed nationalism.... We intend to be an active minority, attract the proletariat away from the official Socialist party. But if the middle class thinks that we are going to be their lightning rods, they are mistaken.
Benito Mussolini
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A veces, de noche, enciendo una luz, para no ver.
Antonio Porchia
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Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think.
Kim Gordon
Sonic Youth
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If you don't want your dog to have bad breath, do what I do: Pour a little Lavoris in the toilet.
Jay Leno
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The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately founded upon the examination of fully developed species;-But to obtain an insight into the laws of development,-the signification or bedeutung, of the parts of an animal body demands a patient examination of the successive stages of their development, in every group of Animals.
Richard Owen
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I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, 'What happened next?'
A. J. P. Taylor
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I will not be presumptuous enough to say that my life can be a role model for anybody; but some poor child living in an obscure place in an underprivileged social setting may find a little solace in the way my destiny has been shaped. It could perhaps help such children liberate themselves from the bondage of their illusory backwardness and hopelessness.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. Rather do I fancy that her traditional subordination was itself an artificial and undesirable condition based on Oriental influences. Our virile Teutonic ancestors did not think their wives unworthy to follow them into battle, or scorn to dream of winged Valkyries bearing them to Valhalla.
H. P. Lovecraft
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In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.
O. Henry
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On land, every animal larger than a cat seems to have died out.
Elizabeth Kolbert
