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"The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again." »Edward Irving Koch
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"A world in which others controlled the course of their own development ... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered." »Benjamin Cohen
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"The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved." »Confucius
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"Grief is a species of idleness." »Samuel Johnson
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"The female of the species is more deadly than the male." »Rudyard Kipling
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"The living is a species of the dead and not a very attractive one." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"It may be irrational of me, but human beings are quite my favorite species." »Doctor Who
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"It is well that there is no one without a fault, for he would not have a friend in the world: he would seem to belong to a different species." »Hazlitt
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"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent it is the one that is most adaptable to change." »Charles Robert Darwin
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"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." »Charles Darwin
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"Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"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
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"A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own." »Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense." »Richard Dawkins
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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, 1857
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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
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"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, The Times (1999)
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"The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents." »Eric Hoffer
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"There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead they did not seem to belong to the same species and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy." »Dean Koontz
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"Dr. Karen Jenson Vampires like you aren't a species, you're just infected, a virus, a sexually transmitted disease. Frost I'll tell you what we are, sister. We're the top of the f***ing food chain." »Blade
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"Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin." »Horace Bushnell
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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
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"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
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"We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species." »Desmond Morris
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"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords." »Samuel Johnson
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"Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords." »Samuel Johnson
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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." »Hippilyte Taine
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"A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy." »Sir Thomas More
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"Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer." »Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
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