#creature

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#creatures #little #machine #man #mysteries

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. ↗

— Norman Douglas

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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it. ↗

— Finley Peter Dunne

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If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies. ↗

— Patricia Velasquez

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I'm very much a creature of habit. ↗

— Eminem

#habit #i #much #very

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. ↗

— Mark Twain

#end #god #made #man #tired

You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years. ↗

— George Wald

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