"More birds have adapted to a changing world than have failed. Very few have the narrow tolerance of the ivory-billed woodpecker or the Bachman's warbler."

-- Roger Tory Peterson

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“In a democracy, power is not permanent.”
“I am attracted to humans. But, of course...not many.”

Source : "Morrissey: 'Unfortunately, I Am Not Homosexual'" by Miriam Coleman, www.rollingstone.com. October 20, 2013.
“Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man's perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency; that man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.”
“I've been coming to Cambodia off and on, six months of the year usually.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.”

Source : George Stillman Hillard (1864). “Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-general U. S. Army”, p.360, Gale Cengage Learning
“One must care about a world one will not see.”
“Have the courage to act instead of react.”
“All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.”

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