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• U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

  Bono

  Emotional, Feelings, Originality

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• Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.

  James Cameron

  Ocean, Giving, Scuba

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• Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is The Origin of Species.

  Kirk Cameron

  Atheist, Years, Atheism

  "Kirk Cameron Stands Behind Controversial Darwin Statements". Interview with Oliver Jones, people.com. September 24, 2009.

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• Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Two, Survival

  "The NS Interview: Noam Chomsky". Interview with Alyssa Mcdonald, www.newstatesman.com. September 13, 2010.

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• Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

  Bill Cosby

  Communication, Sisterhood, Men

  Bill Cosby (1989). “Love & Marriage”

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• I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a species. When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.

  Claire Danes

  Reading, Thinking, Empathy

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• The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Atheist, Insightful

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29: “Erasmus Darwin” by Ernest Krause, with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin; “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin” Edited by Nora Barlow; and Consolidated Index”, p.124, NYU Press

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• To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Truth, New Relationship

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.11523, Delphi Classics

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• On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Views, Ordinary

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.5428, Delphi Classics

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• Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If the States had not united together, there would have been no obligation on adjoining States to regard any species of property unknown to themselves.

  Jefferson Davis

  Together, Slavery, Unions

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• I used to have 30 different species of tarantulas, as well as two Australian scorpions that are considered the deadliest in the world. If stung by one, a person would die in 30 minutes. But when I had kids I had to get rid of them, of course. Those were intense!

  Jonathan Davis

  Kids, Two, Different

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• We are a very, very unusual species.

  Richard Dawkins

  Unusual

  "Richard Dawkins on the Truth of Evolution". "NOW with Bill Moyers", billmoyers.com. 2004.

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• It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

  Charles Dickens

  Baby, Answers, World

  Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.347

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• A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.

  Ann Druyan

  Believe, Expression, People

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• For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.

  Ann Druyan

  Storm, Patterns, Spirit

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• The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

  Havelock Ellis

  Individual, Intimate, Relation

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.99, Elsevier

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• Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Children, Revenge, Games

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• Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

  Gary L. Francione

  Sex, Race, Racism

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• An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.88, New Directions Publishing

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• All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

  John W. Gardner

  Law, Natural, Ferocity

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• Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Europe, Giving

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've been working on it without really knowing it.

  William Gibson

  Knowing, Long, Tree

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• In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhism, Meditation, Earth

  "Beyond environment: falling back in love with Mother Earth" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2012.

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• When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50.

  Woody Harrelson

  Loss, Pages, Environment

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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