"Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of organisms. Biology thus includes natural history, and much else besides."

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Source : Marston Bates (2014). “The Nature of Natural History”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”

Source : "Duh! The Stupid History of the Human Race". Book by Bob Fenster, September 2000.
“Marriage is very important. Marrying a girl is the most important thing a man can do. Never mind business or politics or sport or any of that, there's nothing so vital to the world as a man marrying a woman. That's where we get our children from, that's how the human race goes forward. And if it's too late for children, there's the companionship of a safe and trusted person.”

Source : Frank Delaney (2011). “The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland”, p.21, Random House
“So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.”
“Sun, silence, and happiness.”

Source : Nancy Mitford (2010). “The Pursuit of Love”, p.182, Vintage
“Anything that you fight with or struggle against grows larger. You give power to lower energies by focusing upon them. You don't eliminate darkness by arguing with it. The only way to eliminate darkness is to turn on a light.”

Source : FaceBook post by Doreen Virtue from Dec 29, 2011
“I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.”
“The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.”
“Some of the men and women who will not say in so many words the thing which is not, will deliberately give a false impression. They are not the servants of truth; they are the parasites of truth.”

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