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Justice is to be found only in imagination. Alfred Nobel
Justice Imagination Only Found
I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions. Alfred Russel Wallace
Thankful Religion All Religions Religions Admire See Am Much
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them. Alfred Russel Wallace
History Natural Organization Animals Consider Has-Been Structure Point Habits Take Writers Generally Instincts Been Accordance Fixed Natural History Custom Them Adapted
But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life. Alfred Russel Wallace
Life Animal Beginning Other Must See Some Varied Animal Life Beyond Look Principle Infinitely Forms Now
Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time. Alfred Russel Wallace
Time Matter Admitted Form Modification
The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable. Alfred Russel Wallace
Matter Important Nothing Philosophically Considerations Fact Lead Force Does Conclusion Understood Exist Very Essentially In Fact Us Inconceivable
To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity. Alfred Russel Wallace
Religion Kind Some Mass Mankind Necessity
Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly. Alfred Russel Wallace
Truth Truth Is World Every Tribulations Born Only Fresh Unwillingly Received
I have since wandered among men of many races and many religions. Alfred Russel Wallace
Men Religions Since Wandered Races Many Among
I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong. Alfred Russel Wallace
Great Political Will Evil Every Back Wrong George Hold Social Found Henry
To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur. Alfred Russel Wallace
Truth World Old Miracles Those New Look Without Occur Expect New Truth Which Even Challenging Receive
What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron? Alfred Russel Wallace
Birds More Than Formed Bills
What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters. Alfred Russel Wallace
Marriage Will Matters Duty Society Laws Individual Opinion Educated Reformed Which Public Teach Public Opinion Need
With the assistance of electrical conductivity, we were able to trace by measurements the process of intercalation in a large number of cases and, consequently, to establish experimental foundations for the evaluation of the formation of such intercalation compounds. Alfred Werner
Able Compounds Cases Trace Were Establish Experimental Formation Process Electrical Evaluation Measurements Large Large Number Foundations Assistance Number Consequently
Ironically, when I've asked my straight friends to join me in hanging a rainbow flag, they answer, 'But someone might think we're gay,' not realizing that is exactly the point. To be mistaken for the oppressed is to momentarily become the oppressed. Alice Dreger
Me Gay Become Think Exactly Someone Join Point Mistaken Answer Oppressed Friends Ironically Flag Hanging Straight Might Asked Realizing Momentarily Rainbow
After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought about going into real estate law. Alice Dreger
Age Law School Real Estate Thought College Back Back To School Out Broker About Dropped Mortgage Became Real Going Estate After
Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even small gifts make them susceptible to being biased. If we took doctors seriously as human animals, we might hurt them - and they might hurt us - a lot less. Alice Dreger
Hurt Seriously Tribal Animals Doctors Mistakes Took Evidence Favor Gifts Small Over Biased Make Scientific Scientific Evidence Lot Susceptible Human Being Want Stories Loved Them Might Us Less Even
Using medicine in the service of cosmesis is generally bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for democracy. The only exceptions are when we know the intervention will actually reduce suffering, as with a primary cleft lip repair. Alice Dreger
Service Democracy Suffering Will Doctors Medicine Intervention Bad Only Exceptions Generally Primary Know Reduce Repair Lip Patients Using Actually
If we are going to have to worry all the time that we might offend some students' sensibilities, we are not going to be able to teach in a way that actually matters. We're not going to be able to teach about sex, gender, race, religion, or violence. Alice Dreger
Time Religion Sex Gender Matters Worry Way Able Some About Students Offend Going Sensibilities Race Might Teach Actually Violence
Want to be a well-paid bioethicist, with one, two, or even three university appointments? Just get yourself a two-piece navy polyester suit and follow these three simple rules: (1) Never name names. (2) Screw principles; just follow procedures. (3) Bury the money. Alice Dreger
Yourself Money Simple Three Rules Follow Never Name Names Principles Get Just Want Procedures Screw Polyester Bury Navy Even Two Appointments University Suit
Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians. Alice Dreger
Will Liars Some Writers Primarily Cheats Because Exist Exists Historians May Mean Us Much
My mother has told so many times the unbelievable story of how, as a toddler, I would demand raw onions and eat them like apples, I think that, at this juncture, it is a story that just has to be believed. Alice Dreger
Mother Think Would Eat Unbelievable Onions Raw Demand Like How Juncture Times Just Story Them Toddler Many Believed Apples
I could make a martyrly claim to having been the victim of childhood enslavement when I report that I started regularly cooking with my mother at a hot stove when I was five. But the truth is I wanted to cook. Cooking meant being near food. Alice Dreger
Truth Food Truth Is Cooking Mother Stove Victim Enslavement Claim Having Could Hot Make Been Five Report Childhood Being Wanted Meant Cook Regularly Near Started
You know what Oprah taught me? Unless you count as changing your life having a neighborhood dad say to you every morning at the school bus stop, 'You sure don't look as good as you did on 'Oprah!', being on 'Oprah' doesn't change your life. Alice Dreger
Life Good Morning Me You Change School Every Changing Unless Say Neighborhood Having Count Know Look Sure Oprah Did Stop Taught Being Bus Your Dad
Being a parent of a boy who wants to wear sparkles and grow his hair long - especially when you don't know where it's all going to go - it's hard stuff. I'm not being politically incorrect in acknowledging that, am I? Alice Dreger
You Long Hair Wear Parent Stuff Know Boy Am Go His Going Politically Politically Incorrect Being Where Wants Acknowledging Hard Who Grow Incorrect
When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is wrong. Alice Dreger
Work Hard Work Science Sometimes Out Willingness Find Hypothesis Takes Wrong Most Said Cherished Done Your Hard Actually
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