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• What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. If you're interested in the cake, you get rather annoyed with people saying what species the real plum was.

  Mary McCarthy

  Real, Cake, People

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• But we are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body of information, one everything. Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

  Philip Wylie

  Men, Blood, Brain

  "Generation of Vipers". Book by Philip Wylie, 1942.

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• Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.

  Marcel Theroux

  Literature, Lines, Simulacrum

  Marcel Theroux (2013). “Strange Bodies”, p.74, Faber & Faber

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• Great problems are now being handled, keeping every thinking man in suspense; the unity or multiplicity of human races; the creation of man 1,000 years or 1,000 centuries ago; the fixity of species, or the slow and progressive transformation of one species into another; the eternity of matter; the idea of a God unnecessary: such are some of the questions that humanity discusses nowadays.

  Louis Pasteur

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  Address at the "Sorbonne Scientific Soirée" on April 07, 1864. "The Life of Pasteur". Book by René Vallery-Radot, translated by R .L. Devonshire, p. 140, archive.org. 1902.

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• Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.

  Frank Herbert

  Love, Survival, Essentials

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.24, Penguin

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• In this country, there is an opportunity for the development of man's intellectual, cultural, and spiritual potentialities that has never existed before in the history of our species. I mean not simply an opportunity for greatness for a few, but an opportunity for greatness for the many.

  Edwin Land

  Spiritual, Country, Mean

  "Generation of Greatness: The Idea of a University in an Age of Science". Edwin Land's address at the ninth annual Arthur Dehon Little Memorial Lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, groups.csail.mit.edu. May 22, 1957.

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• People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today.

  Betty White

  Zoos, People, Would Be

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• This is a very violent place to live, the Earth, and we're a very violent species. Cain is still killing Abel. We see that every day.

  Anne Lamott

  Cain, Earth, Abel

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If humanity does not evolve spiritually - each one of us and collectively - our species won't make it. So following that back to each individual - every day you are faced with choices.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Choices, Humanity, Doe

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I hope we have learned throughout centuries of revolution and reaction that it's really a shift in consciousness that we need. And I think there is a shift in consciousness among our human species. I think the human species is evolving, spiritually.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Thinking, Needs, Revolution

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• A meme (rhymes with dream) is a unit of information (a catchphrase, a concept, a tune, a notion of fashion, philosophy or politics) that leaps from brain to brain. Memes compete with one another for replication, and are passed down through a population much the same way genes pass through a species. Potent memes can change minds, alter behavior, catalyze collective mindshifts and transform cultures. Which is why meme warfare has become the geopolitical battle of our information age. Whoever has the memes has the power.

  Kalle Lasn

  Dream, Fashion, Philosophy

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• Natural inclinations are present in things from God, who moves all things. So it is impossible for the natural inclinations of a species to be toward evil in itself. But there is in all perfect animals a natural inclination toward carnal union. Therefore it is impossible for carnal union to be evil in itself.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Moving, Animal, Evil

  Thomas Aquinas (1975). “Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence”, p.182, University of Notre Dame Pess

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• The core of ethics runs deep in our species and is common to human beings everywhere. It survives the most appalling hardships and the most ruthless attempts to deprive human beings of their humanity. Nevertheless, some people resist the idea that his core has a biological basis which we have inherited from our pre-human ancestors.

  Peter Singer

  Running, Ideas, People

  Peter Singer (2011). “The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress”, p.27, Princeton University Press

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• Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Groups, Use, Common

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.406, Modern Library

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• That's the beauty of the Web: You can roll around in a stranger's obsession without having to smell his or her house. You can amscray whenever you want without being rude. The site gets its "hit" and you know more about our species' diversity.

  Penn Jillette

  Smell, Diversity, House

  "Free Celebrity Nudes!". Penn's Columns at Penn & Teller.com, October 15, 1997.

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• [Children are] like talking animals. Their consciousness is so different from ours that they constitute a different species. They don't have to be particularly interesting children; just the fact that they are children is sufficient. They don't know what anything is, so they have to make it up. No matter how dull they are, they still have to figure things out for themselves.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Animal, Talking

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• Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.

  Aristotle

  Character, Mean, Three

  Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1833). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.12

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• Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Vanity, Goal

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.58, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.

  Richard Dawkins

  Dna, Archives, Rivals

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.124, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.

  James Joyce

  Women, Quality, Connections

  James Joyce (2016). “A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN (Awakening of Stephen Dedalus): An Autobiographical Novel from the Author of Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, Dubliners, Stephen Hero, Chamber Music & Exiles”, p.173, e-artnow

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• Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness.

  Henry Ford

  Greed

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.14, 谷月社

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• The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates it to the individual. Procreation, equilibrium.

  Machado de Assis

  Two, Noses, Individual

  Machado de Assis (1952). “Epitaph of a Small Winner”

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• Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time. We live today in an era of discovery that far outshadows the discoveries of the New World five hundred years ago.

  Michael Crichton

  Adventure, Discovery, Years

  "Ritual Abuse, Hot Air, and Missed Opportunities: Science Views Media". Speech to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Anaheim, California, January 25, 1999.

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• A language, like a species, when extinct, never... reappears.

  Charles Darwin

  Language

  "The Origin of Species". Book by Charles Darwin, November 24, 1859.

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• Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of.

  Max Stirner

  Men, Ideals

  "The Ego and Its Own (1844)". Book by Max Stirner. Dover edition, p. 182, 2005.

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