Charles Darwin
Naturalist, Geologist
"Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive."
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Species
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Paul Watson
Journalist
"I can't think of a greater legacy than, "Because you lived, another species survived.""
Hubert Reeves
Astrophysicist
"The Human is the most insane species"
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"Grief is a species of idleness."
Henry Ford
Industrialist
"Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness."
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"Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs"
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"Humans need to be a multiplanet species."
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"... not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity."
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"I've come through things that would have felled an ox. That fills me with optimism, not just for myself but for our particular species."
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"We are one species. We are starstuff."
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"A language, like a species, when extinct, never... reappears."
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"The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions."
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"It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare."
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"Hope is itself a species of happiness."
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"A new species is arising on the planet, it is arising now and you are it."
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"No species, ours included, possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by its genetic history."
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"He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again."
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"Strangers are an endangered species."
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"There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species."
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"Gratitude is a species of justice."
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"I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person."
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"As a species we're fundamentally insane."
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"We are the species that clamors to be lied to."
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