#species

I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species. ↗

— John Hughes

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What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing. ↗

— Jay Inslee

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Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

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The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species. ↗

— Dave Barry

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If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. ↗

— George Carlin

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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time. ↗

— Edward Forbes

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We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.' ↗

— Levi Strauss

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All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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