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

Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time.
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals ...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday t...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

I then walk off into the swamp along the path of logs and tree-trunks, picking my way cautiously, no...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the v...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great politica...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

I have since wandered among men of many races and many religions.
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, e...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

But I think that a little consideration will show you that belief is quite independent of our will, ...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and ...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other prin...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

The life of wild animals is a struggle for existence. The full exertion of all their faculties and a...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pur...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially fo...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and de...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use word...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of a...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion w...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received un...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of ...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associate...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
BERTRAND RUSSEL

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be hap...
BERTRAND RUSSEL

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
RUSSEL LYNES

People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.
RUSSEL HONORE

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds ...
RUSSEL HONORE

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.
RUSSEL HONORE

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.
BERTRAND RUSSEL

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
BERTRAND RUSSEL

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to en...
BERTRAND RUSSEL

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown a...
BERTRAND RUSSEL

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the s...
BERTRAND RUSSEL

One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of p...
BERTRAND RUSSEL

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
BERTRAND RUSSEL

By-and-large, these are families that are just waiting to get out of here. They are frustrated; I wo...
RUSSEL HONORE

They never loved the way you were, Then be the one they can never have.
MUNCHKIN RUSSEL

You dint loved me the way I was, You don't deserve me the way I am.
MUNCHKIN RUSSEL

The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in t...
RUSSEL HONORE

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics,...
RUSSEL HONORE

You know, we lose more homes every year to flooding than we do any other event in America.
RUSSEL HONORE

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
BERTRAND RUSSEL

Fidelity bases its IPO allocation policy entirely on asset size and that's the way it should be,
RUSSEL KINNEL

Fidelity bases its IPO allocation policy entirely on asset size and that's the way it should be.
RUSSEL KINNEL

Long distance kill touch & Arguments kill love. Strike one out & your the most loving couple ever
MUNCHKIN RUSSEL

Last year people got panicky about corporate debt because of Enron and WorldCom. The spread (between...
RUSSEL KINNEL

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it surviva...
RUSSEL HONORE

'Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the ...
BERTRAND RUSSEL

During the aftermath of Katrina, National Guard troops were positioned on every block to establish a...
RUSSEL HONORE

I know 8 know nothing
BERNARD RUSSEL

It's a good strategy, a good manager, just not a very appealing wrapper.
RUSSEL KINNEL

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to being in love with somebody...
RUSSEL BAKER

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and shoul...
RUSSEL BAKER

A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to encourage her own.
RUSSEL GREEN

The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as ...
RUSSEL HONORE

Generally you go with a manager who has a meaningful track record somewhere. It doesn't guarantee th...
RUSSEL KINNEL

Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until...
RUSSEL HONORE

Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly tw...
RUSSEL HONORE

Most active managers are investing in what they think is a sure thing rather than their best specula...
RUSSEL KINNEL

We got the capacity, and it seemed like the right thing to do.
RUSSEL HONORE

Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 More things are wrought by prayer Than this...
ALFRED

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
J. RUSSEL LYNES

When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs in...
RUSSEL H. CONWELL

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great...
RUSSEL H. CONWELL

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring mysel...
RUSSEL H. CONWELL

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
J. RUSSEL LYNES

The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you c...
J. RUSSEL LYNES

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out a...
RUSSEL H. CONWELL

The Allied governments, for example, with the British as executors, maintained in place the food blo...
RUSSEL H.S. STOLFI

We didn't want another Kent State. They weren't trained for crowd control.
RUSSEL L. HONORE

I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Sco...
WILLIAM WALLACE

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird...
WALLACE STEVENS

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
WALLACE STEVENS

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
WALLACE STEVENS

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our d...
WALLACE STEVENS

The imagination is man's power over nature.
WALLACE STEVENS

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade thro...
WALLACE STEVENS

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to l...
WALLACE STEVENS

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
WALLACE STEVENS

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
WALLACE STEVENS

Money is a kind of poetry.
WALLACE STEVENS

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
WALLACE STEVENS

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
WALLACE STEVENS

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intoleran...
WALLACE STEVENS

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
WALLACE STEVENS

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
WALLACE STEVENS

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
WALLACE STEVENS

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
WALLACE STEVENS

Hard writing makes easy reading.
WALLACE STEGNER

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue an...
WALLACE STEGNER

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
WALLACE STEGNER

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supportin...
WALLACE SHAWN

There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and ev...
WALLACE SHAWN

I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you wou...
WALLACE SHAWN

Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
WALLACE SHAWN

Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or por...
WALLACE SHAWN

I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothe...
WALLACE SHAWN

After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, br...
WALLACE SHAWN

I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
WALLACE SHAWN

I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most oth...
WALLACE SHAWN

I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a...
WALLACE SHAWN

Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love ...
WALLACE SHAWN

I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people ...
WALLACE SHAWN

My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In oth...
WALLACE SHAWN

I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.
WALLACE SHAWN

'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would...
WALLACE SHAWN

We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor ...
WALLACE SHAWN

It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to...
WALLACE SHAWN

I am recognized a lot for 'Clueless,' but I am recognized a great deal for 'The Princess...
WALLACE SHAWN

When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expr...
WALLACE SHAWN

We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, ...
WALLACE SHAWN

Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding any...
WALLACE SHAWN

I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my frien...
WALLACE SHAWN

'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I...
WALLACE SHAWN

Under no circumstance is any proverbial player ever more significant than the collective.
CARLOS WALLACE

You're a good man," Fang said. "You're the last good man in this whole town. All the good that could...
DANIEL WALLACE

In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and...
MIKE WALLACE

... I was reminded of a remark of Willa Cather's, that you can't paint sunlight, you can only paint ...
WALLACE STEGNER

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her,
Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams
An...
WALLACE STEVENS

The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.
WALLACE STEVENS

Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a wom...
WALLACE STEVENS

O! Desolated Scotland, too credulous of fair speeches, and not aware of the calamities which are com...
WILLIAM WALLACE

Campaigns bring out the warriors in everybody.
NICOLLE WALLACE

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.
CHRIS WALLACE

Cut blocking is not fair, it's going after the legs. It would be the same thing if in NASCAR you wer...
AL WALLACE

Football was a game that had kicked me around pretty good for a few years. I almost called him and s...
AL WALLACE

If you look at the film like we did this morning, he's making more plays after the first and second ...
AL WALLACE

You win football games by stopping the run and 1,800 yards this year is definitely a priority for us...
AL WALLACE

It's a good feeling to go out and play like we did. So many guys made so many plays today. We gave t...
AL WALLACE

It's going to be interesting. They have a great team. Some great weapons on offense and their defens...
AL WALLACE

You try to contain (Vick) as best you can, but once he's in your sights you have to open fire. If yo...
AL WALLACE

With our legs and knees there is enough bad stuff that can happen on accident. But to allow someone ...
AL WALLACE

I fell down in the mud and here it comes falling down in my lap.
AL WALLACE

It's kind of scary. You look at the things they're doing, 4-0 now, it's kind of parallel to what we ...
AL WALLACE

I think the long-term potential is very, very good. There's a large amount of energy in the ocean.
ALAN WALLACE

These guys are so dedicated and passionate about what they do.
ALAN WALLACE

I'm a qualified lifeguard and have being teaching people how to surf for five years now. Victor used...
ALAN WALLACE

I have had this ambition for quite a long time but just did not know how to do it.
ALAN WALLACE

The existence of biases hurts recruiting. Intentionally overlooking some things just because you wan...
ALAN WALLACE

I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind ...
MARCIA WALLACE

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclo...
WALLACE STEVENS

They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as th...
WALLACE STEVENS

I never had the slightest desire to be a major league manager, and all knew it. But Ban Johnson, Bob...
BOBBY WALLACE

When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then lear...
WILLIAM WALLACE

Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low
WALLACE SAYRE

Is killing a known terrorist wrong? I ask this, did the terrorist allow any of his victims quarter? ...
T.R. WALLACE

I don't expect people to forget my brash words or deeds. But I ask that they try to remember the...
GEORGE WALLACE

There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersect...
WALLACE STEGNER

Opusculum paedagogicum
The pears are not viols,
Nudes or bottles.
They resemble nothing els...
WALLACE STEVENS

In the midst of combat, we learned a great deal about mankind and its many different races, creeds a...
CARLOS WALLACE

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world.
WALLACE STEVENS

Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state ...
WALLACE STEVENS

The poet is the priest of the invisible.
WALLACE STEVENS

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that...
WALLACE STEGNER

I don't think people think about Zook anymore at Florida. He's just a memory there now.
ALLEN WALLACE

If he (Schilling) goes to Washington that will be a giant positive for them in many different ways.
ALLEN WALLACE

A player makes a name for himself and then causes younger players to look and see what can be accomp...
ALLEN WALLACE

If you win the mythical recruiting title, it shows you're focused, you've got momentum and that you'...
ALLEN WALLACE

They [Stoops and Carroll] have a unique ability to plan for the short term and the long term at the ...
ALLEN WALLACE

It's always harder to stay at the top. Soon they're going to find out what it's like to try to recru...
ALLEN WALLACE

You don't see Penn State hanging on in the latter stages of these recruiting races for difference ma...
ALLEN WALLACE

I think it's case of Penn State not focusing on the right kids. You don't see them often bringing in...
ALLEN WALLACE

They have the stature now where they can appeal to anyone, anyplace.
ALLEN WALLACE

Ultimately, it’s about determining what matters most to you; what’s important; what it will take...
CARLOS WALLACE

A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.
DANIEL WALLACE

Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.
WALLACE STEVENS

How red the rose that is the soldier
WALLACE STEVENS

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
WALLACE STEVENS

Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, ...
WALLACE STEVENS

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
WALLACE STEVENS

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
WALLACE STEVENS

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
WALLACE STEVENS

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. ...
WALLACE STEVENS

I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing...
WALLACE STEVENS

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
LEW WALLACE

How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
WALLACE STEVENS

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
WALLACE STEVENS

Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their compla...
WALLACE STEVENS

The imagination is man's power over nature.
WALLACE STEVENS

Hope, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin.
WALLACE RICE

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget ...
WALLACE STEVENS

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
LEW WALLACE

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the thr...
WALLACE STEVENS

Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.
WALLACE STEVENS

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more th...
WALLACE STEVENS

Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves t...
WALLACE STEVENS

I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. Th...
WALLACE STEVENS

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, poli...
WALLACE STEVENS

The genuine artist is never true to life. He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of ...
WALLACE STEVENS

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosu...
WALLACE STEVENS

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
WALLACE STEVENS

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of ...
IRVING WALLACE

If sex were all, then every trembling hand
Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words...
WALLACE STEVENS

I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to...
LEW WALLACE

Any tax over 12-14% -- regardless of the base -- will corrupt enough taxpayers to render the system ...
STEVE WALLACE

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which...
WALLACE STEVENS

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

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