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“Its evolutionary adaptability is largely gone. Ecologically, it has become moribund. Sheer chance, among other factors, is working against it. The toilet of its destiny has been flushed.”
― The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
― The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
“The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”
― The Spectator Bird
― The Spectator Bird
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”
― Hocus Pocus
― Hocus Pocus
“Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.”
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“We drank our whiskeys. It was the good stuff and it tasted of salt, sea, rain, wind and the Old Testament.”
― The Cold Cold Ground
― The Cold Cold Ground
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