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Ornithologist Inspirational Quotes (796)

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Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.
Jared Diamond
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No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.
John Ray
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The ideal Government minister may well be someone who has no itch to run other people's lives.
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
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It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands.
Jared Diamond
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most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.
Ernst Mayr
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There is but one answer to terrorism and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle.
Theodore Roosevelt
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I love thee like puddings if thou wert pie I'd eat thee.
John Ray
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The name Roosevelt has this legendary force in our country at this time.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The White House is a bully pulpit.
Theodore Roosevelt
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When we control business in the public interest we are also bound to encourage it in the public interest or it will be a bad thing for everybody and worst of all for those on whose behalf the control is nominally exercised.
Theodore Roosevelt
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In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement.
Theodore Roosevelt
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I do not believe there ever was any life more attractive to a vigorous young fellow than life on a cattle ranch in those days. It was a fine, healthy life, too it taught a man self-reliance, hardihood, and the value of instant decision...I enjoyed the life to the full.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.
John Ray
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Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.
Theodore Roosevelt
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This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American trappers alike, the Bad Lands.
Theodore Roosevelt
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I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.
Jared Diamond
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To those we love best we say the least
John Ray
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In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.
John James Audubon
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I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.
Carl Linnaeus
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The composition of the Greens seems to be the same as that of the population in general - mainly pieces of drifting wood, people who never think.
Pentti Linkola
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It is a maxim received in life that, in general, we can determine more wisely for others than for ourselves. The reason of it is so dear in argument that it hardly wants the confirmation of experience.
Junius
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