"Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal."

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Source : Richard Owen (1848). “On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton”, p.7

Richard Owen

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“The humiliation of the North is complete and overwhelming.”
“That which is threatening to the ego is liberating to the heart.”
“When a vision comes from the thunder beings of the west, it comes with terror like a thunder storm; but when the storm of vision has passed, the world is greenier and happier; for wherever the truth of vision comes upon the world, it is like a rain. The world, you see, is happier after the terror of the storm.”

Source : "Black Elk Speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Ogalala Sioux" by John Neihardt, 1961.
“Life is like cooking: before choosing what you love, try everything... â™¥”
“You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.”
“Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.”
“Linear thinking is patriarchal.”
“...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries of life and organization, and even of the intellect and moral being, were conjured within the magic circle of mathematical formulae.”

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