Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.


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I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't c...
EDGAR WRIGHT
I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascina...
EDGAR WRIGHT
Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in...
EDGAR WRIGHT
We were shooting 'Hot Fuzz' in my hometown of Wells, Somerset, and I remember looking at the...
EDGAR WRIGHT
If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
EDGAR WRIGHT
We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the...
EDGAR WRIGHT
When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and fac...
EDGAR WRIGHT
Maybe directors who are more interested in realism and naturalism come from cities, where they see t...
EDGAR WRIGHT
I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complac...
EDGAR WRIGHT
Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music.
EDGAR WRIGHT
I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned ...
JOE WRIGHT
I WUV FOOD
~Bricks+Skittles+Oreos=MY LIFE~
DORTEA WRIGHT
You can buy business by selling below cost to drive new sales and a lot of time companies will do th...
ALAN WRIGHT
If they run a promotion and have a real low price, then that's going to lower in the whole area the ...
ALAN WRIGHT
You're competing against the guy across the street and so the market is set by the local competition...
ALAN WRIGHT
It was a poor match and a lot of the anglers who took part found it difficult to catch.
ALAN WRIGHT
Now I have received an invoice for the whole period from 2003 to date. Again my email was not answer...
ALAN WRIGHT
We continue to face logistical issues in getting fuel to Pilot Travel Centers and some short-term in...
ALAN WRIGHT
A tall officer was able to grab his ankles. He was about one or two steps from getting away.
ALAN WRIGHT
Refineries in Texas did not take a direct hit from Rita, but the energy grids in that area were effe...
ALAN WRIGHT
It is unclear when refining capacity will be restored, but it is estimated these refineries will be ...
ALAN WRIGHT
Prices on the wholesale market have been up sharply the past several days. As a retailer, we have fi...
ALAN WRIGHT
Man has been adjudged a social animal.
FRANCES WRIGHT
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unkn...
FRANCES WRIGHT
If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetua...
FRANCES WRIGHT
Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.
FRANCES WRIGHT
Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.
FRANCES WRIGHT
It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advan...
FRANCES WRIGHT
He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed,...
FRANCES WRIGHT
The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
FRANCES WRIGHT
It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the...
FRANCES WRIGHT
These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may a...
FRANCES WRIGHT
There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights o...
FRANCES WRIGHT
Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?
FRANCES WRIGHT
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have...
FRANCES WRIGHT
Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at t...
FRANCES WRIGHT
Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong a...
FRANCES WRIGHT
Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.
FRANCES WRIGHT
Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, w...
FRANCES WRIGHT
Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no lon...
FRANCES WRIGHT
If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all th...
FRANCES WRIGHT
The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed ...
FRANCES WRIGHT
All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your ...
FRANCES WRIGHT
Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you...
FRANCES WRIGHT
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. -- Orville Wright.
ORVILLE WRIGHT
The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; an...
FRANCES WRIGHT