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God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototyp

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed — that is the meaning of evolution. – Graham Greene

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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect — it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. – Graham Greene

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Corruption
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Graham Greene
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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. – Graham Greene

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Truth
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Evolution
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All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. – Charles Sanders Peirce

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Evolution

It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far. – Cornelia Otis Skinner

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Evolution

Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching. – Jean Baudrillard

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Evolution

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. You forget, said the Devil, with a chuckle, that I have been evolving too. – W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

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Evolution

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Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. – Virgil

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Gold

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. – Carl Sagan

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Knowledge

The attorney general would call at 5 oclock in the evening and say: Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what were likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there. – Harold H. Greene

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Morning

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me. – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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legal