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What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron? — Alfred Russel Wallace

I have since wandered among men of many races and many religions. — Alfred Russel Wallace

They give you a smaller glass so it feels like you're getting more, — Roger Ebert

There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond. — Jan Myrdal

Kickin', ass takin' names, cashing checks, and breakin necks, the champ is here. — John Cena

Mars, therefore, is not only uninhabited by intelligent beings such as Mr. Lowell postulates, but is absolutely uninhabitable. — Alfred Russel Wallace

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters. — Alfred Russel Wallace

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity. — Alfred Russel Wallace

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong. — Alfred Russel Wallace

I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions. — Alfred Russel Wallace

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race. — Alfred Russel Wallace

Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time. — Alfred Russel Wallace

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away. — Tom Lehrer

The festivity had reached that apogee of joy when you face the happy fate of being crushed to death. — Emile Zola

No matter our age, everyone in our household knows that cooking and eating together is where the fun is — Corky Pollan

[I]t is indisputably the mediocre, if not the low, both as regards morality and intelligence, who succeed in life and multiply the fastest. — Alfred Russel Wallace

A negative attitude drains, a positive attitude energizes. — Lindsey Rietzsch

Judge not by the form of the messenger, but the form of the message. — Richard Bach

To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten. — Samuel Beckett

The white men in our colonies are too frequently the savages — Alfred Russel Wallace

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly. — Alfred Russel Wallace

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death. — Alfred Russel Wallace

I've been here all the time; I could be putting out as many albums as Costello, y'know what I mean? — Shane MacGowan

There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type. — Alfred Russel Wallace

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means. — Carl Von Clausewitz

I always get my way. — M.L. LeGette

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception. — Alfred Russel Wallace

Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other? — Peggy Kopman-Owens

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally. — Evelyn Waugh

To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur. — Alfred Russel Wallace

Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees. — Alfred Austin