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" Natural history is not about producing fables. "

David Attenborough

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" Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. "

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" There are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I think that to even to begin to understand our contemporary issues and contemporary problems, you have to understand a little bit about that history. "

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" Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. "

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" If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter. The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist. "

" An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. "

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" Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. "

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" Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. "

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" Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history. "

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