"The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best be cleared up by devoting ourselves to the study of the actual state of the living world, and to those monuments of the past in which the relics of the animate creation of former ages are best preserved and least mutilated by the hand of time."

Source : Sir Charles Lyell (1863). “The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man: With Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation”, p.470

Charles Lyell

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“Every little bit of peace I bring someone is worth the peace I never had.”
“I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.”

Source : Craig Johnson (2004). “The Cold Dish: A Longmire Mystery”, p.277, Penguin
“I've even had people tell me that I must not be a Christian because I think climate change is real. But you know, there's nothing in the Bible that says that. The sad truth is that our thought leaders - many of them in the conservative media and politics - are the ones telling us this isn't real, and we are believing them.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Trend analyses for extreme tropical cyclones are unreliable because of operational changes that have artificially resulted in more intense tropical cyclones being recorded, casting severe doubts on any such trend linkages to global warming.”
“A, C, and G are the only chords any honest musician needs.”
“It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.”
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.”

Source : Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.87, Simon and Schuster
“I want to give people easy things to wear.”

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