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Ornithologist Inspirational Quotes (796)

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Technology has to be invented or adopted.
Jared Diamond
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What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.
Theodore Roosevelt
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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
Theodore Roosevelt
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To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade the issue.
Ernst Mayr
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It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel?
Jared Diamond
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I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are also necessary to the full and many-sided development of a fine race.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased
John James Audubon
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Little children, little sorrows big children, big sorrows.
John Ray
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The object of government is the welfare of the people.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Children, when they are little, they make parents fools when great, mad.
John Ray
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Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.
Georges Cuvier
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In name we had the Declaration of Independence in 1776 but we gave the lie by our acts to the words of the Declaration of Independence until 1865 and words count for nothing except in so far as they represent acts.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished.
John James Audubon
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There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.
Edward Lear
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The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.
Theodore Roosevelt
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How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?
John James Audubon
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It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he shall go with hundreds of companions to see someone else play well.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was quite enthusiastic.
John James Audubon
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Make preparations in advance ... you never have trouble if you are prepared for it.
Theodore Roosevelt
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If the first of July it be rainy weather, 'Twill rain more or less for four weeks together.
John Ray
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