Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.


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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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In the separation of the human species from nature, life goes awry.
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Nature’s law is such that it metes out its justice to everyone as they deserve by giving each pers...
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Every living being, from ants to whales, has a right to live and die in accordance with the law of t...
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Any change one effect on his natural being with a purpose would definitely end up revealing his hypo...
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We are all in the middle of nature beauty contest.
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In the 1960 campaign, Arthur Schlesinger wrote of Adlai Stevenson, who already lost twice as the par...
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She did not mind this new background; she was indifferent to the slums as she had been indifferent t...
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Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.
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Biologists will teach us that the survival of the species depends on cooperation, not competition.
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What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its o...
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It is the manifest Destiny of man, nay it is our duty. We must take to the stars to ensure our survi...
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The atoll was poorly explored with only about 35 fish species known previously. Including the new sp...
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All that we have achieved in life is creating a virtual reality for ourselves, while burying the act...
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has failed to produce the goal all Americans share the recovery of endangered species.
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Successful cloning of an increasing number of species confirms the general impression that it would ...
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I'd rather be on the ground than under
To feel the heavy rain and the thunder.
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We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
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It's our human nature to explore. Tens of thousands of years ago, our species walked out of Afri...
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Without protection of the endangered species act we would have lost hundreds of additional species i...
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The spirit finds a way to be born. Instinct seeks for ways to survive.
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Capitalism: let live who can afford to, not simply who wishes to. Life has a price and it belongs on...
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The spirit finds a way to be born.
Instinct seeks for ways to survive.
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How indifferent he was to Carol after all, Therese thought. She felt he didn't see her, as he someti...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
ORSON WELLES
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To ki...
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The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
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Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or posse...
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People were animals, and animals were nothing but teeth. You bit first, and you bit often, That was ...
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Cities are the abyss of the human species.
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Cities are the abyss of the human species
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Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.
BERNARD MARCUS
Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
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Living in your genome is the history of our species.
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The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
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The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of a...
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Why should humans in their unsurity decide what species are and are not important to humans? Is natu...
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We must know that when we invite people into our lives, we are not just inviting people; but we are ...
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What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?
ABERJHANI
I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Survival is a passive way of saying “my needs are greater than yours.
CAROLINE GEORGE
Death is natural and necessary, but not just. It is a random force of nature; survival is equally ac...
HARRIET MCBRYDE JOHNSON
Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
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Americans are entitled to the full rights of Englishmen, including representation in the decisions o...
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Southern Resident killer whales have been integral to the ecological, social, and economic well bein...
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It is true that all of us are the beneficiaries of crimes committed by our ancestors, and it is true...
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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It's very special having a new little girl.
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I don't define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a de...
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The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically sp...
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Loneliness has been described as a chronic disease with no redeeming features. But it is very import...
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
The definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
He is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a spee...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
Freedom rings where opinions clash
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
We have confused the free with the free and easy.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
Carelessness about our security is dangerous; carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of thi...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
I don't envy the driver and I don't think the American people will care to ride in his bus very far.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
"Via ovicpitum dura est", or, for the benefit of the engineers among you: "The way of the egghead is...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a politica...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe a...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air a...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood and then mount the stump to make a spee...
ADLAI EWING STEVENSON
Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to ...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR.
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. Th...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR.
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. Th...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR.
What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR.
There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR.
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR.
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR.
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR.
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe a...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR.