segunda-feira, junho 07, 2004

1944/1984/2004

Ronald Reagan's "D-Day" Memorial Speech
June 6, 1984
Remarks to Veterans at U.S. Ranger Monument, Pointe du Hoc, France
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"In North America the black bear was seen by [Samuel] Hearne swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale."
Darwin, Charles; "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" (On the origin and transitions of organic beings with peculiar habits and structure)