Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.
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I find Denver's hipster scene to be fully unique.
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Three years is a lifetime in Hollywood. If your career starts slipping in L.A., you can really feel it. All of a sudden, the people that you were beating for a part start beating you.
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I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.
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'Twin Peaks' has got interesting characters. They are all different from anything anyone has ever seen before. You've had bad people before. But everyone's got little quirks, and everyone's interesting.
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Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
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If it's going to go my way, it's going to go my way. I have to keep working hard.
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It is only requisite for me to add that the doctrines which I commenced to preach some seven years since are as firmly believed by me as ever; and through persecutions have attended, and the rage and malice of men been heaped upon me, I feel equally as firm in the great and glorious cause as when first I received my mission from the holy messenger.
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They're waiting for what the government has to say rather than what the national project has to say.
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I would kick this bad world's ass if I could just get on my feet
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I also think that employees these days expect less of a separation of work and personal life. That doesn't mean that work tasks should encroach upon our personal time, but it does mean that employees today expect more from the companies for whom they work. Why shouldn't your workplace reflect your values? Why is "giving back" not a part of our jobs? The answer for us is to integrate philanthropy with work.
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Life grows relative to one’s investment in it.
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Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.
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I really like how the sixth book is going. A lot happens in the sixth book and a lot of questions are answered. I really have a sense that we are nearly there and it is time for answers, not more questions and clues, although obviously there are a few clues as I am not quite finished yet.
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I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way...” “Yes, they do that,” said Dumbledore.
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The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic a way as possible, and that (not interfering with their lessons) they should be as much as possible with their parents, and learn to place the greatest confidence in them in all things.
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A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
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There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates for a Bill of Rights and trial by jury.
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What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
