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If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose. ↗

— William Bartram

#animal #artifice #attention #bestow #creation

Conquered people tend to be witty. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#people #tend #witty

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive. ↗

— Sidney Hook

#already #any #betray #cause #cost

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#based #forgotten #good #good reason #happened

People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#again #attention #bring #concerned #fathers

Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#break #clear #disparities #down #men

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. ↗

— Pierre Beaumarchais

#everything #fear #hasten #i #laugh

It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place. ↗

— Boris Becker

#any #germany #hero #heroes #i

The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#coming #distractions #football #footballers #get

There are as many jobs for younger Americans as there are for other Americans of every age group in political campaigns. Campaigns are very labor intensive and volunteer dependent. ↗

— Marc Racicot

#age group #campaigns #dependent #every #group