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“Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.”

Years Firsts Humans Stills Two Facts Dies Born Air Creatures Eternal England Twenties Britain Ireland Seventies Foreigners Being Irish Ireland And The Irish

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us. But the Wasichus came, and they have made little islands for us and other little islands for the four-leggeds, and always these islands are becoming smaller, for around them surges the gnawing flood of the Wasichu; and it is dirty with lies and greed.”

Littles Made Two Country Together Lying Animal Four Becoming Creatures Greed Hungry Plenty Dirty Islands Flood

Author:Black Elk

“Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.”

“A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.”

Two Hours Sleep Liberty Path Mountain Creatures Equal Add Saint Climbing Rogues Fraternity Mountain Climbing Tiredness

Book:Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“Most impediments to scientific understanding are conceptual locks, not factual lacks. Most difficult to dislodge are those biases that escape our scrutiny because they seem so obviously, even ineluctably, just. We know ourselves best and tend to view other creatures as mirrors of our own constitution and social arrangements. ( Aristotle , and nearly two millennia of successors, designated the large bee that leads the swarm as a king.”

Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

“The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.”

Ifs Knows Men Two Earth Artist Three Behinds Knowing Feet He Man Creatures Dancing Inspired Leaving Surface Tales Print

Book:Lord of the Flies

Source: Lord of the Flies

“The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so many that I suspect they are never the same in any two cases. It includes passion but does not survive by passion; it has its whiffs of the agreeable vertigo of young love, but it is stable more often than dizzy; it is a growing, changing thing, and it is tactful enough to give the addicted parties occasional rests from strong and exhausting feeling of any kind.”

“In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world--God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator.”

Men World Writing Two Book Whole Stories Interesting Personality Creatures Bible Creator Whole World Love Story Autobiography Most Interesting Unfinished Interesting Personalities

Author:Fulton Oursler

“English stupidity is an organism so primitive that it is apparently impossible to kill off. It reminds me of Physarum Polycephalum, the gigantic slime mould recently bred by scientists at Bonn. Bright yellow and about two millimetres thick, this monocellular creature--neither plant nor animal--grew to a size of 10 square yards before the scientists took fright and froze it. It can smell its favourite food, and move towards it at a speed of up to two centimetres an hour. This favourite food is porridge.”

Two Moving Hours Animal Impossible Grew Creatures Scientist Plant Size Smell Stupidity Speed Squares Yellow Thick Favourite Primitive Organisms Yards Fright Mould Slime Porridge

Author:Neal Ascherson

“We can each sit and wait to die, from the very day of our births. Those of us who do not do so, choose to ask - and to answer - the two questions that define every conscious creature: What do I want? and What will I do to get it? Which are, finally, only one question: What is my will? Caine teaches us that the answer is always found within our own experience; our lives provide the structure of the question, and a properly phrased question contains its own answer.”

Want Two Dies Asks Found Waiting Answers Teach Our Lives Birth Creatures Conscious Structure

Author:Matthew Woodring Stover

“A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied were the spider and the novelist - their lives hanging by a thread spun out of their own guts. But in some ways I think writers of fiction are the creatures most to be envied, because who else besides the spider is allowed to take that fragile thread and weave it into a pattern? What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it to create some semblance of order.”

Thinking Way Writing Said Two Book Able Order Fiction Grace Mines Creatures Chaos Patterns Novelists Guts Fragile Thread Spiders Envied Spun History Books Semblance

Author:Katherine Paterson

“If one is the kind of creature I am and wants to do the kind of writing I want to do, an undisturbed bourgeois existence with no distractions seems in order. A single meeting outside the family upsets one's whole inner web, makes one start off on two-days' thinking and weighing, destroys a delicate balance etc. etc. ... I now have enough friends to last me a lifetime and that is enough. I am going to close the doors and hibernate at least for a couple of years. I am frightfully depressed about my work. It seems to me perfectly mediocre.”

“Except two breeds - the stupid and the narrowly feline - all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all good non-analytic creatures refute with horror, but quite true: there is always the poignant intensive personal taste, the flair of inner-sex, in the tenderest friendships of women.”

Two Sex Stupid Taste Horror Creatures Sexuality Assertion Poignant Analytics Flair Feline Personal Taste

Book:Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader

Source: Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader

“I don't want to turn into one of those pathetic creatures who are always homesick, always saying I wish I were still in Beirut. I don't want to become like you, split between here and there. I know I'm not happy here, but why should I be unhappy in two countries?”

Knows Want Should Stills Two Country Turns Wish Like You Creatures Unhappy Splits Should I Pathetic Here And There Not Happy Homesick Two Countries Beirut

Book:Beirut Blues

Source: Beirut Blues

“How often do our heroes stand still? It's hard to imagine Spock and Kirk landing on a planet and just relaxing for a month or two. Just hanging out has nothing to do with boldly going where no one has gone before. What makes us different from every other creature is that we go places, places we've not gone before. We do it willingly, and often. What makes our work and our life interesting is discovery, surprise, and the risk of exploration.”

Source: Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?

“You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be all one substance inside, hard candy. But it isn't hard candy so much as a hopeless seething lava of all kinds of things, a turmoil, a mess. And once the child starts thinking about this mess he begins to disintegrate as a child and turns into something else--an adult, an animal.”

“Providence has so ordained it, that only two women have a true interest in the happiness of a man--his own mother, and the mother of his children. Besides these two legitimate kinds of love, there is nothing between the two creatures except vain excitement, painful and vain delusion.”

Men Love Kind Children Two Mother Interest Creatures Painful Vain Excitement Delusion Providence Kinds Of Love

Author:Octave Feuillet

“In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and unnatural condition. At all events we may firstly observe in living creatures both a despotical and a constitutional rule; for the soul rules the body with a despotical rule, whereas the intellect rules the appetites with a constitutional and royal rule. And it is clear that the rule of the soul over the body, and of the mind and the rational element over the passionate, is natural and expedient; whereas the equality of the two or the rule of the inferior is always hurtful.”

Source: Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens

“Sunday night meant, in the dark, wintry, rainy Midlands ... anywhere where two creatures might stand and squeeze together and spoon.... Spooning was a fine art, whereas kissing and cuddling are calf-processes.”

Art Two Might Together Night Process Dark Fine Creatures Kissing Sunday Fine Arts Spoons Rainy Calves Cuddling Sunday Night

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“The two big mistakes were the belief in a sky god - that there's a man in the sky with 10 things he doesn't want you to do and you'll burn for a long time if you do them - and private property, which I think is at the core of our failure as a species. That's the source of my indignations, my dissatisfactions, however it comes out on the stage. I feel betrayed by the people I'm part of, these creatures, these magnificent creatures.”

“The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort towards perfection, mere buoys that float on the waves.”

Men Two Humanity Class Special Duty Demand Creatures Difficulty Adversity Excellence Radical Division Splits

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.”

Two Humanity Particular Creatures Elements Catholic Faculty

Book:The Annotated Emerson

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.”

Made Two Left Son Creatures Tiny Pupils Left Out Grandson

Book:Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997

Source: Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997

“I am nothing but a miserable, crushed worm, whom no one wants, whom no one loves, a useless creature with morning sickness, and abig belly, two rotten teeth, and a bad temper, a battered sense of dignity, and a love which nobody wants and which nearly drives me insane.”

Want Two Morning Creatures Dignity Teeth Insane Miserable Useless Sickness Temper Worms Belly One Love Rotten Crushed Battered Bad Temper Morning Sickness

Author:Sophia Tolstaya

“There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others.”

Two Earth Faces Values Creatures Commitment

Author:John Adams

“There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.”

Firsts Two Book Fall Study Creatures Errors Scripture Gods Will Volume

Author:Francis Bacon

“To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.”

Two Reason Creatures Rational Titles Glorious

Book:The Works of John Locke: In Nine Volumes

Source: The Works of John Locke: In Nine Volumes

“Two would actually do it- two magic words that could replace all the religions in the world- two wonderful words that embrace all the powers and all of the energy we need to survive with each other and with our planet and with all the world's living creatures- don't hurt.”

World Needs Two Energy Hurt Wonderful Magic Planets Creatures Embrace Our Planet Living Creatures Magic Words

Author:Roger Caras

“Creatures are cups. The sciences and the arts and all branches of knowledge are inscriptions around the outside of the cups. When a cup shatters, the writing can no longer be read. The wine's the thing! The wine that's held in the mold of these physical cups. Drink the wine and know what lasts and what to love. The man who truly asks must be sure of two things: One, that he's mistaken in what he's doing or thinking now. And two, that there is a wisdom he doesn't know yet. Asking is half of knowing.”

Thinking Knows Men Writing Art Two Lasts Asks Half Knowing He Man Drink Creatures Asking Wine Cups Branches Two Things Mistaken Mold Inscriptions

Author:Rumi

“A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad!”

“Let us suppose that an ichthyologist is exploring the life of the ocean. He casts a net into the water and brings up a fishy assortment. Surveying his catch, he proceeds in the usual manner of a scientist to systematise what it reveals. He arrives at two generalisations: No sea-creature is less than two inches long. (2) All sea-creatures have gills. These are both true of his catch, and he assumes tentatively that they will remain true however often he repeats it.”

Long Two Water Sea Creatures Ocean Scientist Assuming Casts Repeats Usual Inches Exploring Generalization Fishy

Author:Arthur Eddington

“Here is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy. A film with no villains. No fight scenes. No evil adults. No fighting between the two kids. No scary monsters. No darkness before the dawn. A world that is benign. A world where if you meet a strange towering creature in the forest, you curl up on its tummy and have a nap.”

Ifs World Should Children Made Two Kids Film Fighting Evil Darkness Strange Scene Creatures Adults Scary Monsters Forests Dawn Villain Naps Curls Benign Darkness Before The Dawn

Author:Roger Ebert

“Every creature reproduces after its kind. A dog gives birth to dogs, a cat gives birth to cats, a cow gives birth to cows, a monkey reproduces monkeys and a human reproduces humans. So when God gives birth, what do you think He'll reproduce? gods, of course! When God created Man, He created him in His image and after His likeness. That's why we look like Him; we have two hands the same way He has two hands. We have two legs, one head, one mouth, one nose, two ears and two eyes just like Him.”

Thinking Men Way Giving Humans Looks Kind Two Hands Eye Courses Dog Birth Creatures Mouths Cat Ears Legs Noses Cows Monkeys Two Hands

Author:Chris Oyakhilome

“We have the same genetic code for all living creatures. We have a large number of genes that are manifestly the same, but with detail differences - they look like different drafts of the same book. In extreme cases, like a human and a beetroot, it's like the difference between Matthew and Luke's Gospel - clearly they tell the same story, but with different words. Whereas with a human and a chimp, it's like two different printings of Matthew, with a few typos in one.”

Humans Looks Two Book Different Stories Differences Numbers Cases Creatures Details Extremes Code Genes Printing Large Numbers Luke Living Creatures Matthew Typos

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.”

Men Two Order Taken Dog Shapes Creatures Guitar Size

Author:Andres Segovia

“Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.”

Men World Two Spiritual Walks Wonder Wall Walking Creatures Nightmare Caves Pilgrimage Two Worlds

Book:Three Complete Novels

Source: Three Complete Novels

“Thus is Man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live, not onely like other creatures in divers elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds: for though there be but one to sense, there are two to reason, the one visible, the other invisible.”

Men World Two Reason Creatures Elements Invisible Visible Divided Distinguished

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.”

Two Animal Half Study Creatures Gold Horse Dollars Surprise Fifty Lions Quarters Cents Eagles Compounds Zoology

Book:The Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Devil's Dictionary

“She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of lightning to start the kindling going under her medicine pot. She turned the moon into salve, the stars into swaddling cloth, and healed the wounds of every creature walking up on two or down on four.”

Two Use Hands Stars Walks Four Walking Moon Creatures Medicine Storm Wounds Heat Touched Pot Lightning Palms Healed Bolts Kindling

Book:Mama Day: A Novel

Source: Mama Day: A Novel

“Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.”

People Knows Men Needs Two Young Three Courses Known Baby Creatures Capable Tests Intelligent Species Young Man Friendly Frightening Absurdity Manufacturing Tubes Rumours Highly Intelligent

Book:Soul Mountain

Source: Soul Mountain

“A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to entertain by Mr. Neil Gaiman, scrivener, and then doodled, elaborated upon, illustrated, and beaten soundly by Mr. Cris Grimly, etcher and illuminator, featuring two brave children, their diminutive but no less courageous gazelle, and a large number of extremely dangerous trolls, monsters, bugbears, creatures, and other such nastiness, many of which have perfectly disgusting eating habits and ought not, under any circumstances, to be encouraged.”

“Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language.”

Two Language Bits Boys Creatures Spokes Mice Motorcycle

Book:The Mouse and the motorcycle

Source: The Mouse and the motorcycle

“Anyway, now she thinks of Estha and Rahel as Them, because, separately, the two of them are no longer what They were or ever thought They would be. Ever. Their lives have a size and a shape now. Estha has his and Rahel hers. Edges, Borders, Boundaries, Brinks and Limits have appeared like a team of trolls on their separate horizons. Short creatures with long shadows, patrolling the Blurry End. Gentle half-moons have gathered under their eyes and they are as old as Ammu was when she died.”

Thinking Long Two Ends Would Be Eye Half Team Shapes Moon Creatures Limits Shadow Died Size Edges Boundaries Gentle Borders Horizon Troll Blurry Long Shadows Half Moon Patrolling

Book:The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

“We all need one another; much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private "home" of his own, so all human creatures need a place to be together in, from the two who can show each other their souls uninterruptedly, to the largest throng that can throb and stir in unison.”

Needs Humans Two Soul Shows Home Together Creatures Sacred Unison

Book:Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland

Source: Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland

“Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life he could not have kept two of these young creatures satisfactorily refreshed, even if he had fifteen experts to help him. Necessarily almost the entire thousand had to go hungry for years and years on a stretch. Conceive of a man hardhearted enough to look daily upon all that suffering and not be moved to mitigate it.”

Source: Letters from the Earth: Easyread Edition

“Any time I’m not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it’s because I’m up to something.”

Two Night Bits Like You Creatures Mouths Shooting Dresden Creatures Of The Night Two Bit

Book:Side Jobs

Source: Side Jobs

“I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.”

World Two Three Creatures Priests I Am The Best

Book:Candide: and Other Poetic and Philosophical Writings

Source: Candide: and Other Poetic and Philosophical Writings

“Why no aggressive action?" Foaly squirmed in a harness built for two-legged creatures. "Oh yes, why no aggressive action? How I long for aggressive action." "I live for aggressive action!" thundered Orion squeakily which was unusual. "Oh, how I pray that dragon will turn 'round that I may smite it." "Smite it with what?" wandered Foaly "Your secret birthmark?" "Don't you mock my birthmark, which I may or may not have.”

May Long Two Action Turns Secret Praying Creatures Built Rounds Dragons Aggressive Unusual I Pray Mock Harness Orion Birthmarks

Author:Eoin Colfer

“We got quiet. The garden was combing her hair and putting on earrings. The house was full of dancing creatures, not male and female but both, two lovers in one body. The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leather covers. Wine was flowing through the water pipes. You had caught my leaping heart in your hand like a fish.”

Heart Two Book Body Hands Together House Water Hair Lovers Quiet Creatures Female Garden Wine Dancing Males Caught Fishes Pipe Leather Whispering Earrings Reciting Two Lovers

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“In this room we understand why this war might be fought...it's about our common belief that no one has the right to tell two creatures that they cannot love each other--no matter what their species.”

Two War Matter Might Belief Rooms Common Creatures No Matter What Species Love Each Other

Book:All Souls Trilogy

Source: All Souls Trilogy