Escritas — Poems List

Charles Darwin

In the struggle for survival,

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

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Guy Gavriel Kay

We are the total of

We are the total of our longings.

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Benjamin Franklin

A democracy is two wolves

A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.

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Alfred Austin

Is life worth living? Yes,

Is life worth living? Yes, so long

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Jacob Bronowski

Knowledge is an unending adventure

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

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Ian Gabirol

You may regret your silence

You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often.

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Matthew Arnold

Resolve to be thyself; and

Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

There is no confusion like

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

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Mark Ridley

The theory of evolution is

The theory of evolution is outstandingly the most important theory in biology.

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Randall Wallace

Maybe the gift of any

Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.

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Thomas Campbell

Without the smile from partial

Without the smile from partial beauty won,

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Jimmy Carter

The measure of a society

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.

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James Broughton

The only limits are those

The only limits are those of vision.

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Helena Cronin

Imagine a world without Darwin.

Imagine a world without Darwin. Imagine a world in which Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace had not transformed our understanding of living things. What... would become baffling and puzzling..., in urgent need of explanation? The answer is: practically everything about living things....

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

If eyes were made for

If eyes were made for seeing,

144

George W. Bush

I believe that freedom is

I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.

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Albert Einstein

Only a life lived for

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.

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Isaac Newton

If I have seen further

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants

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Aeschylus

Of all the gods, Death

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts:

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Sharon Olds

The older I get, the

The older I get, the more I feel

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Max Planck

A new scientific truth does

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

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Jacob Bronowski

The most wonderful discovery made

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

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Aeschylus

O Death the Healer, scorn

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,

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George Bernard Shaw

If you have an apple

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

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