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Ornithologist Inspirational Quotes (796)

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I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.
Olivier Messiaen
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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level of the geographical race, but the origin of genetic segregation. The test of species-formation is whether, when two forms meet, they interbreed and merge, or whether they keep distinct.
David Lack
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I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share.
Mabel Osgood Wright
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose face is marred with dust and sweat who strives valiantly who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Birds are an ecological litmus paper.
Roger Tory Peterson
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There is more to biology than rats, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis, and E. coli.
Ernst Mayr
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There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
Theodore Roosevelt
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A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink.
John Ray
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Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the Giver of Good and we seek to praise Him -not by words only -but by deeds, by the way in which we do our duty to ourselves and to our fellow men.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The dog has no ambition, no self-interest, no desire for vengeance, no fear other than that of displeasing.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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I violate no secret when I say that one of the greatest values in Masonry is that it affords an opportunity for men of all walks of life to meet on common ground where all men are equal and have one common interest.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American
Theodore Roosevelt
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Lean liberty is better than fat slavery
John Ray
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There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
Junius
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Every special interest is entitled to justice - full, fair, and complete... but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench, or to representation in any public office.
Theodore Roosevelt
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We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life it matters not how brilliant his capacity.
Theodore Roosevelt
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I grew up as a cameraman, so it's much easier for me to shoot it myself. I work with an operator and a crew, but it's way easier for me to function as a cinematographer, than to have a cinematographer between me and the lens. I don't need that.
David Douglas
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For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know
Theodore Roosevelt
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Think of all the human suffering caused by the sad truth that beautiful sexy women or handsome Porsche-owning men often prove to have miserable genes for other traits
Jared Diamond
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History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves
Jared Diamond
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Phylogeny and ontogeny are, therefore, the two coordinated branches of morphology. Phylogeny is the developmental history [Entwickelungsgeschichte] of the abstract, genealogical individual ontogeny, on the other hand, is the developmental history of the concrete, morphological individual.
Ernst Haeckel
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