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Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit.
~ Richard Owen
Admit
Critical
Degrees
Had
Him
His
Judgment
Kinds
Led
Observations
Others
Own
Reports
Variation
Which
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Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature.
~ Richard Owen
Barriers
Every
Every Step
Man
Nature
Parts
Progress
Relating
Separate
Several
Sought
Step
Study
Technical
Which
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Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another.
~ Richard Owen
Another
Appreciation
Being
Dependence
Estimate
Experience
Importance
Led
Living
Moderate
More
Subsequent
Truer
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Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.
~ Richard Owen
Affects
Certain
Chain
Darwin
Even
Ingenious
Life
Mr
Network
Principle
Rather
Some
Striking
Total
Way
Which
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Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.
~ Richard Owen
After
Another
Attaining
Before
Cause
Darwin
Either
Every
Individual
Maturity
Mr
Multitude
Perish
Soon
Species
Which
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.
~ Richard Owen
Attention
Darwin
Devoted
More
Mr
Naturalist
Painstaking
Structure
Than
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That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.
~ Richard Owen
Admit
Certain
Certain Extent
Condition
Constant
Extent
Individuals
Life
Organism
Otherwise
Species
Would
Would-Be
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The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.
~ Richard Owen
Aspirations
Case
His
Inevitably
Man
Mere
Mission
Nature
Necessity
Operations
Origin
Physiological
Powers
Psychological
Raise
Scientific
Stage
Study
Very
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The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.
~ Richard Owen
Almost
Between
Bottle
Mystical
Relationship
Russian
Vodka
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All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.
~ Richard Stallman
Abuse
Correct
Governments
Human
Pressured
Rights
Should
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Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.
~ Richard Stallman
Anything
Being
Friendly
Good
Neighbour
Prevents
Tactic
Terror
You
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Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.
~ Richard Stallman
Control
Difficult
Ideas
Lives
Make
More
Other
Over
People
Really
Use
Used
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Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.
~ Richard Stallman
Any
Danger
Eliminate
Fighting
Malaria
More
Never
Patents
Software
Than
Will
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I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.
~ Richard Stallman
Amused
Back
Building
Career
Code
Could
Divide
End
Feel
Had
Knew
Life
Look
Made
Making
Money
My Life
Myself
People
Perhaps
Place
Spent
Walls
Way
World
Worse
Would
Writing
Years
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If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.
~ Richard Stallman
Creating
Deserve
Innovative
Programmers
Programs
Punished
Restrict
Rewarded
Same
Token
Use
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If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.
~ Richard Stallman
Accomplish
Achieve
Choose
Enough
Goal
Idealism
Method
Need
Something
Want
Works
World
You
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People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.
~ Richard Stallman
Ask
Church
Free
Hacking
Happy
Me
Penance
People
Sin
Sometimes
Use
Using
Version
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The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.
~ Richard Stallman
Creativity
Depriving
Desire
Does
General
Justify
Part
Rewarded
World
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The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part.
~ Richard Stallman
Ancient
Ancient Times
Authors
Copied
Copyright
Did
Even
Exist
Frequently
Idea
Length
Many
Non-Fiction
Only
Other
Part
Practice
Survived
Times
Useful
Way
Works
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The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.
~ Richard Stallman
Always
Assuming
Capitalism
Competition
Defenders
Does
Encourage
Everyone
Faster
Good
Good Job
Job
Paradigm
Race
Really
Rewarding
Run
Way
Winner
Works
Wrong
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