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Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out.


Trofim Lysenko


#darwin #day #errors #fight #free

The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors.


Trofim Lysenko


#classics #darwin #darwinian #darwinian theory #errors

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.


Henry Miller


#enemy #every #every man #human #human race

I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries.


Shawn Johnson


#american #championships #classics #each #feel

My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.


William Kempe


#background #ballet #ballet dancer #classics #contemporary

I'm more comfortable weaving Indian flavors into American classics.


Aarti Sequeira


#classics #comfortable #flavors #i #indian

Jude leaped out of arm's reach, and walked along the trackway weeping--not from the pain, though that was keen enough; not from the perception of the flaw in the terrestrial scheme, by which what was good for God's birds was bad for God's gardener; but with the awful sense that he had wholly disgraced himself before he had been a year in the parish, and hence might be a burden to his great-aunt for life.


Thomas Hardy


#god #life

And with regard to the resentment of his family, or the indignation of the world, if the former were excited by his marrying me, it would not give me one moment's concern-- and the world in general would have too much sense to join in the scorn.


Jane Austen


#elizabeth-bennet #jane-austen #family

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?


William Makepeace Thackeray


#humor #satire #vanity #humor

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation. All have been, or at least all have believed themselves to be, in danger from the pursuit of some one they wished to avoid; and all have been anxious for the attentions of someone they wished to please.


Jane Austen


#classics #love #page- #love






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