"Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year has its applications to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross."

-- Thomas Huxley

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“The generation of seeds ... is therefore marvelous and analogous to the other productions of living things. For first of all an umbilicus appears. ... Its extremity gradually expands and after gathering a colliquamentous ichor becomes analogous to an amnion. ... In the course of time the seed or fetus begins to become visible.”
“Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.”
“Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure.”
“In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.”

Source : Simon Hoggart (1990). “America: A User's Guide”, HarperCollins
“Being queen is overrated.”
“I've been around long enough for people to know who I am and what my contributions are. They know me as more than just an artist. I think they know me as a woman as well.”

Source : "Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, talks about her life and legacy". Interview with DeNeen L. Brown, www.washingtonpost.com. November 16, 2012.
“I treat the camera like a personâ€”I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.”
“Happy music doesn't tend to move me much”

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