#extinct

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At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.


Whittaker Chambers


#another #beyond #could #equal #extinction

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.


George C. Williams


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The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.


Jeanette Winterson


#extinct #interest #lasts #over #speaks

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.


Asa Gray


#best #cause #explaining #extinction #families

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.


Rabbi Hillel


#extinction #learn #refuses #who

Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct. We don't know why. Some by wanton extinction, some through natural catastrophe, some destroyed by meteorites and asteroids. In the light of these mass extinctions it really does seem unreasonable to suppose that Homo sapiens should be exempt. Our species will have been one of the shortest-lived of all, a mere blink, you may say, in the eye of time.


P.D. James


#life #life

Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.


Oliver Joseph Lodge


#death #existence #extinction #extinguished #neither

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.


Ernst Mayr


#competitive #doomed #ecological #evolutionary #extinction

This is not a matter of weapons. We are hopeful for God's help. The real matter is the extinction of America. And, God willing, it will fall to the ground.


Mohammed Omar


#extinction #fall #god #ground #help

If music became extinct now, I don't know what I'd be good for.


Tommy Shaw


#extinct #good #i #know #music