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• El prodigioso desperdicio de vidas humanas ocasionado por esta perpetua lucha por el espacio y los alimentos, fue suplido con creces por el poderoso poder de la población, actuando, en cierto grado, libre del hábito constante de la emigración.

  Thomas Malthus

  Life, Struggle, Science

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.17, University of Michigan Press

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• Desde las prodigiosas colinas de New Hampshire, que suene la libertad. Desde las poderosas montañas de New York, que suene la libertad. Desde los Alleghenies de Pensilvania, que suene la libertad. Pero no sólo eso: Que suene la libertad desde cada colina y topera de Mississippi.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  New York, Freedom, July

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• Pediste un Dios amoroso: lo tienes... El mismo fuego consumidor, el Amor que hizo los mundos, persistente como el amor del artista por su obra y despótico como el amor de un hombre por un perro, providente y venerable como el amor de un padre por un hijo, celoso, inexorable, exigente como el amor entre los sexos. Cómo puede ser esto, no lo sé: excede a la razón explicar por qué cualquier criatura, por no decir criaturas como nosotros, debe tener un valor tan prodigioso a los ojos de su Creador.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dog, Sex, Children

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• Inside was where she lived, physically and mentally. She resided in the horn of plenty of her own prodigious mind, fertilized by inexhaustible curiosity.

  Tim LaHaye

  Curiosity, Mind, Introvert

  Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins (2013). “The Rising: Antichrist is Born / Before They Were Left Behind”, p.10, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than those who want to preserve or restore the forest. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet – for the sake of hamburgers

  Peter Singer

  Mean, Animal, Gambling

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• Well, my love,” said Alexia with prodigious daring to Lord Maccon, “shall we?” The earl started to move forward and then stopped abruptly and looked down at her, not moving at all. “Am I?” “Are you what?” She peeked up at him through her tangled hair, pretending confusion. There was no possible way she was going to make this easy for him. “Your love?” “Well, you are a werewolf, Scottish, naked, and covered in blood, and I am still holding your hand.” He sighed in evident relief. “Good. That is settled, then.

  Gail Carriger

  Moving, Hair, Blood

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• Avoid fancy words....If you admire fancy words, if every sky is beauteous, every blonde curvaceous, every intelligent child prodigious, if you are tickled by discombobulate, you will have bad time Reminder 14.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Children, Intelligent, Sky

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• Mi único amor surgió de mi único odio. Demasiado pronto visto desconocido, y conocido demasiado tarde. Prodigioso nacimiento del amor es para mí, que debo amar a un odiado enemigo.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Romance, Enemy

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [142]

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• Debo de tener una cantidad prodigiosa de mente; a veces tardo hasta una semana en recuperarla.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiración, diversión, sabiduría

  The Innocents Abroad (1869) ch. 7

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• There are estimated to be fewer that 50 prodigious savants worldwide. If we were brought together, it would be disappointing in the sense of us having different abilities. One thing that would make me feel united with them would be the sense of us having grown up in isolation.

  Daniel Tammet

  Together, Different, Would Be

  "This much I know" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2009.

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• The performance on the stage has its reasons in the performance induced in thousands of separate minds and this second performance is no less prodigious than the first.

  Domenico Gnoli

  Mind, Firsts, Reason

  Source: observer.com

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• Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect a little more narrowly these living existences, the only beings worth regarding. How hostile and destructive to each other! How insufficient all of them for their own happiness! How contemptible or odious to the spectator! The whole presents nothing but the idea of a blind Nature, inpregnated by a great vivifying principle, and pouring forth from her lap, without discernment or parental care, her maimed and abortive children.

  David Hume

  Nature, Children, Science

  David Hume (1874). “A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion”, p.452

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• It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.

  William Banting

  True Friend, Exercise, Old Friends

  William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.12

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• Si los cristianos votaran su deber a Dios en las urnas, ganarían todas las elecciones, y lo harían con facilidad. Elegirían a todos los candidatos limpios de los Estados Unidos y derrotarían a todos los sucios. Su prodigioso poder sería rápidamente comprendido y reconocido, y después no habría candidatos impuros en ninguna papeleta, y cesaría el chanchullo.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Voting, Tickets

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910”

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• It is a confession that we do not have such a prodigious head as is required to answer the question what is happening, that we cannot get on top of what is happening, that we are stuck in the middle of it, in medias res, inter-esse, amazing and bewildered. We cannot soar over what is happening with philosophy's eagle-wings. What's happening has clipped our wings.

  John D. Caputo

  Philosophy, Eagles, Wings

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• From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord,--use it faithfully.

  Robert Schumann

  Spring, Iron, Watches

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• América comete errores prodigiosos, América tiene defectos colosales, pero una cosa no se puede negar: América siempre está en movimiento. Puede que se esté yendo al infierno, desde luego, pero al menos no está quieta.

  e. e. cummings

  Sarcastic, Mistake, Moving

  1927 'Why I Like America', in Vanity Fair, May.

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• At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided into smaller parts. Nevertheless, for entirely speculative reasons the philosophers of Antiquity, especially the Stoics, concluded this concept to be quite unnecessary. The prodigious development of physics has now reached the same conclusion as those philosophers, Empedocles and Democritus in particular, who lived around 500 B.C.E. and for whom even ancient man had a lively admiration.

  Svante Arrhenius

  Men, Sight, Firsts

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• Alphabet Juice es el libro que Roy Blount nació para escribir, lo cual, teniendo en cuenta su prodigioso talento, es mucho decir. ¿Sabías que la palabra RISA está relacionada lingüísticamente con las gallinas y la tarta? Este es el libro que todos los que amamos con urgencia y pasión las palabras -leerlas, pasarlas por la lengua y conocer sus historias mientras reímos y comemos pollo y tarta- hemos tenido la suerte de nacer para leer.

  Cathleen Schine

  Book, Writing, Pie

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• Chance alone is at the source of every innovaton, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, only chance, absolute but blind liberty is at the root of the prodigious edifice that is evolution... It today is the sole conceivable hypothesis, the only one that squares with observed and tested fact. Stating life began by the chance collision of particles of nucleic acid in the "prebiotic soup."

  Jacques Monod

  Science, Squares, Roots

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• ... en efecto, ¿qué razón no puede ir a la escuela de la sabiduría de las abejas, las hormigas y las arañas? ¿Qué mano sabia les enseña a hacer lo que la razón no puede enseñarnos? Las cabezas más rudas se asombran ante esas prodigiosas piezas de la naturaleza que son las ballenas, los elefantes, los dromedarios y los camellos; éstos, lo confieso, son los colosos y las piezas majestuosas de su mano; pero en estos estrechos motores hay matemáticas más curiosas; y la urbanidad de estos pequeños Ciudadanos expone con más pulcritud la sabiduría de su Hacedor.

  Thomas Browne

  Wise, Nature, Hands

  "Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence".

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• Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali.

  Salvador Dali

  Morning, Awakening, Today

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• Algunos amigos me han preguntado cómo llegué a engendrar este antagonismo estadounidense. Mi prodigioso pecado fue, y sigue siendo, ser un inconformista. Aunque no soy comunista, me negué a alinearme odiándolos. En segundo lugar, me opuse al Comité de Actividades Antiamericanas -una frase deshonesta para empezar, lo suficientemente elástica como para enroscarse alrededor de la garganta y estrangular la voz de cualquier ciudadano americano cuya opinión honesta sea minoritaria.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Hate, Fall, Voice

  "My Autobiography". Book by Charlie Chaplin, September 1964.

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• La primera vez que veo al verdadero David Lynch en el plató de su película, está orinando en un árbol... El Sr. David Lynch, un prodigioso bebedor de café, aparentemente orina mucho y a menudo.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Café, Ojo

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• I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Musician, Actors, Able

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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