No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.

What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.

Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another.

Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit.

Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature.

Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.

Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.

Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.

You will never be who you want to be, until you are happy with who you are.

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You couldn't always control life, just your response to it.

The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.

Error is part of the overhead of doing research

A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

What I thought I developed all of those years ago was a pattern to understand communication.

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Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.

Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent.