"The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer, but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again."

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Source : "The Bird: Its Form and Function". Book by William Beebe, 1906.

William Beebe

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“Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.”

Source : Richard Wagner (1897). “Religion and Art”, p.210, U of Nebraska Press
“Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with the Positivists.”

Source : Mortimer Collins, F. Percy Cotton (1886). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Mortimer Collins”
“My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me that the lamp which I carry does not belong to me, and the song that I sing was not generated from within me.”
“We are all capable of greater things than we realize.”
“Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.”
“Think of what's stored in an 80- or a 90-year-old mind. Just marvel at it. You've got to get out this information, this knowledge, because you've got something to pass on. There'll be nobody like you ever again. Make the most of every molecule you've got as long as you've got a second to go.”
“Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice versa.”
“Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.”

Source : "On Movies, Money & Politics". Interview with Peter Biskind, www.thenation.com. March 18, 1999.

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