“ Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
- 973
“ Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be. ”
- Henri Frederic Amiel- Copy
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“ Man may be considered as a superior species of animal who produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives. ”
- Hippolyte Taine- Copy
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“ It may be irrational of me, but human beings are quite my favorite species. ”
- Doctor Who- Copy
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“ PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the service of her will and paralyzing his rebellious energies. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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“ My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future. ”
- Ralph Abraham- Copy
- 750
“ Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves. ”
- Herbert W. Boyer- Copy
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“ If any choose to maintain, as many do, that species were gradually brought to their maturity from humbler forms … he is welcome to his hypothesis, but I have nothing to do with it. ”
- Philip Henry Gosse- Copy
- 383
“ Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species. ”
- Dalai Lama- Copy
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“ As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying. ”
- Arthur C. Clarke- Copy
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“ If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. ”
- George Carlin- Copy
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“ There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. ”
- Desmond Morris- Copy
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“ Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
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“ A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ And now, the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year… when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled. ”
- Charles Delint- Copy
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“ Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning. ”
- H.G. Wells- Copy
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“ For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. ”
- James Boswell- Copy
- 317
“ Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species. ”
- Konrad Lorenz- Copy
- 281
“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exists in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object. ”
- Henry Fuseli- Copy
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“ Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. ”
- Adlai E. Stevenson- Copy
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