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William Lyon Phelps

"A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices."

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Donna Grant

"Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod."

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Donna Grant

"Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble."

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Donna Grant

"I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh."

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Donna Grant

"A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices."

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Donna Grant

"The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft."

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Donna Grant

"Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned."

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Donna Grant

"When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first."

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Donna Grant

"Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place."

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Donna Grant

"To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds."

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Donna Grant

"Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body."

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William Lyon Phelps
"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."

Reading

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William Lyon Phelps
"If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow."

Happiness

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William Lyon Phelps
"A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices."

Birds

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William Lyon Phelps
"One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute."

Life

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William Lyon Phelps
"This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."

Respect

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William Lyon Phelps
"If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything."

Persistence

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William Lyon Phelps
"If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible."

People

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William Lyon Phelps
"A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration."

Encouragement

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William Lyon Phelps
"The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts."

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William Lyon Phelps
"If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens."

Painting

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