"Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and made the fruitful suggestion of "a perfecting principle" in Nature. With the coming in of Christian theology this tendency toward a yet truer theory of evolution was mainly stopped, but the old crude view remained..."

Source : Andrew Dickson White (2012). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods”, p.52, Transaction Publishers

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“I love how intimate I've become with failure.”

Source : Bob Hicok (2013). “Elegy Owed”, p.28, Copper Canyon Press
“A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician”
“I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.”
“Only what I'm not giving is what is lacking in any situation”
“Like your weight set-point, which keeps the scale hovering around the same number, your happiness set-point will remain the same unless you make a concerted effort to change it.”
“I don't snack all the time, but I do sometimes drink l more than I should.”
“Whence it is evident that the remedy must be adapted to the particular cause of the mischief; consequently, the cause must be ascertained, before the remedy is devised.”

Source : Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.336
“Devolving APD to Scotland is merely tinkering with it. We have to get shot of this hated tax right across the country to ensure all of our airports are competing on level terms.”

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