"We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations."

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Source : Roderick Impey Murchison (1854). “Siluria: the history of the oldest known rocks containing organic remains”, p.481

Roderick Murchison

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“Itâ€™s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize whatâ€™s changed, is you.”
“It's always hard to talk about the culture that you are from, especially with Islam, it is a very sensitive subject and I don't want to be seen to be adding to the problems of Islam and the west.”

Source : Source: www.sbs.com.au
“From birth to the teenage years, the brain undergoes a fourfold increase in volume”

Source : Eric Jensen (2005). “Teaching with the Brain in Mind”, p.11, ASCD
“I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.”
“Those who depend fully on another personâ€™s knowledge to decide what is possible are easily manipulated. The most effective leaders utilize experts from all fields, but rely on none when it comes to making a decision.”

Source : Joelle Charbonneau (2014). “The Testing Trilogy”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.”
“I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!”
“Divine Law is not subject nor affected by the majority vote of humanity”

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