"If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations."

Alfred Russel Wallace, British Scientist

People, Wealth, Blind, Future

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"If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

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"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"There are three categories of people exist in the world; "the wanters", "the wishers" and "the makers."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

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"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

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"Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly."

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"There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter."

Development

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

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"Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time."

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"In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found."

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"As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways."

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

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"To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity."

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"I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind."

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