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Ornithologist Inspirational Quotes (796)

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A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
Carl Linnaeus
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We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes.
John Edward Gray
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Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.
Theodore Roosevelt
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In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and must play a great part in the world. It is not open to us to choose whether we will play that great part or not.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Don't limit your challenges - challenge your limits. Don't spread patriotism too thin.
Theodore Roosevelt
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But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.
Georges Cuvier
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Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct the past to suit the present views and feelings of the writer the other is a natual desire to set his own part in affairs in a pleasing light.
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
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In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only such qualities as honesty and truthfulness, but courage, perseverance and self-reliance.
Theodore Roosevelt
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It doesn't so much matter what one loves. To love is the transfiguring thing.
Mabel Osgood Wright
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I feel as fit as a bull moose.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.
Theodore Roosevelt
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There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter
Alfred Russel Wallace
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The owl and the pussycat went to sea, / In a beautiful pea green boat. / They took some honey, and plenty of money, / Wrapped up in a five pound note.
Edward Lear
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There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Whatever it is, handle it so that your children's children will get the benefit of it.
Theodore Roosevelt
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But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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I do. That is character!
Theodore Roosevelt
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Almost every man who has by his life-work added to the sum of human achievement of which the race is proud, of which our people are proud, almost every such man has based his life-work largely upon the teachings of the Bible
Theodore Roosevelt
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The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created] the variety mostly that of circumstance the class and the order are the work of nature and art.
Carl Linnaeus
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When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming to your land by order of his Majesty the King of Spain. Our Lord permitted that your pride should be brought low and that no Indian should be able to offend a Christian.
Jared Diamond
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At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.
Theodore Roosevelt
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