"We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape."

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Source : Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion”

Asa Gray

#Animal Quotes #Shapes Quotes #Individual Quotes

“One of the keys to learning for me has been to not get so hung up on the past. It's important to remember the past, but that doesn't mean you have to torture yourself with it by reliving it every single day.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 20, 2010.
“The biggest lesson I've learned . . . was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food you want to eat, you ought never to complain about anything.”
“Technology cannot be an end in itself but must aim at solving long term social and ecological problems.”
“I'm not sure that being a man in the fashion industry has any advantage over being a woman. Why would it?”
“I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.”
“When there are strange things going on all around, every coincidence should be considered very carefully.”

Source : Sergei Lukyanenko (2013). “The New Watch: (Night Watch 5)”, p.42, Random House
“I'm from Hollywood, I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.”

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