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“Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which might disturb the orderly classifications of the taxonomist.”
Source : David Lack (1947). “Darwin's Finches”, p.23, CUP Archive
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“Seeing within changes one's outer vision.”
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“As long as it is hot, wet and goes down the right way, its fine with me.”
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“It was my mother who gave me my voice. She did this, I know now, by clearing a space where my words could fall, grow, then find their way to others.”
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“Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.”
Source : Giambattista Vico (2015). “The New Science of Giambattista Vico”, p.27, Cornell University Press
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“The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.”
Source : Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.401, Cato Institute
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“we like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here.”
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“I suffer from a spiritual malaise which manifests itself in outbursts of vicious rage.”
