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Prehistorian Inspirational Quotes (129)

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The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.
Rudolf Virchow
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A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid for in advance false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.
John Lubbock
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What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.
Louise Leakey
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Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.
Donald Johanson
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Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.
John Lubbock
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The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
John Lubbock
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I remember writing a paper on human evolution in 1944, and I simply left Piltdown out. You could make sense of human evolution if you didn't try to put Piltdown into it.
Sherwood Washburn
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Perhaps we will one day be able at least to admit of a God possessing sufficient majesty and expansiveness to transcend the limits of our own imaginations and experience. But meanwhile, . . . we might do well to look upon the inadequacy of our concepts of God as the truest mirror of those limitations that define our condition.
Ian Tattersall
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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
John Lubbock
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Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.
John Lubbock
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It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.
John Lubbock
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There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.
Louis Leakey
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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
John Lubbock
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It always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window.
John Lubbock
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Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of the first humans, but there was nothing inevitable about it.
Richard Leakey
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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
John Lubbock
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Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.
John Lubbock
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You can only look forward as far as you can look back.
Raymond Dart
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Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.
John Lubbock
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As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.
Rudolf Virchow
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To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.
Louis Leakey
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A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.
John Lubbock
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The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.
Richard Leakey
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Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.
Rudolf Virchow
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