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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

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before. — Susan B. Anthony

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

Everybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it. — Donald E. Westlake

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

[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

I go to bed when the kids go to bed because I get up when they get up at 5. — Felicity Huffman

I sit, smoking, my head against the cool comfort of the fighter plane's wheel, its wing shielding but never embracing me. I'm a cold nestling tonight. — Aleksandr Voinov

I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs. — David Dinkins

When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never be taken from you. — Laozi

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

There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder. — Vincent Bugliosi

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

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

Were I the wind, I'd blow no more on such a wicked, miserable world. — Herman Melville

watching the tiny bubbles flea-jump out the top of her glass — Lauren Groff

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

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

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived. — Florence Nightingale

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

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. — Nicole Kidman

We have to fight for the freedom to be stupid, and smoking is one of the best ways to fight for your freedom, to be just as stupid as you can be. — Penn Jillette

lET HIM MARCH TO THE MUSIC HE HEARS — Henry David Thoreau