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Ornithologist Inspirational Quotes (796)

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He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.
John Ray
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In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions.
Jared Diamond
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Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it, the most complete work of nature, and man is her masterpiece.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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We shall make mistakes and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.
Theodore Roosevelt
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I must be wanting to be President. Every young man does. But I won't let myself think of it I must not, because if I do, I will begin to work for it I'll be careful, calculating, cautious in word and act, and so - I'll beat myself.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The worst of all fears is the fear of living
Theodore Roosevelt
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Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time
Alfred Russel Wallace
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He [Lincoln] had mastered it {the Bible] absolutely...mastered it so that he became almost 'a man of one Book', who knew that Book and who instinctively put into practice what he had been taught therein.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.
John Ray
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The hardest lessons to learn are those that are the most obvious.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time. . . . I once saw a man kill a lion with a 30-30 caliber rifle under certain conditions, but that doesn't mean that a 30-30 rifle is a lion gun.
Theodore Roosevelt
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A light-heel'd mother makes a heavy-heel'd daughter.
John Ray
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There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Man is not distinguished from [the animals] by a special kind of soul, or by any peculiar and exclusive psychic function, but only by a higher degree of psychic activity, a superior stage of development.
Ernst Haeckel
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The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.
Theodore Roosevelt
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It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings
Theodore Roosevelt
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The more you look, the more you will see.
Roger Tory Peterson
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All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The mother is the one supreme asset of national life she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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