"No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire series of geological formations."

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Source : William Buckland (1837). “Geology and Mineralogy: Considered with Reference to Natural Theology”, p.103

William Buckland

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“The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such as Monkey Bone, Corkey Romano, and A Night at the Roxbury, leading me to believe not only do I have awful taste in films, but I also have a Chris Kattan fixation. What I don't have is $4000 earing intrest in a money market account.”
“The institutions that claim to represent God, when they are not ignored altogether, are treated like other human institutions that have to earn their right to a hearing by the value of what they say, and not by virtue of who is saying it. Today, authority has to earn respect by the intrinsic value of what it says, not by the force of its imposition.”

Source : Richard Holloway (2000). “Godless Morality: Keeping Religion Out Of Ethics”, p.31, Canongate Books
“I am not free because I can be exploded anytime.”
“You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.”
“However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins. It was words of this kind that, descending on me like a swarm of winged insects, seized on my individuality and sought to shut me up within it. Nevertheless, despite the enemy's depredations upon my person, I turned their universality - at once a weapon and a weakness - back on them, and to some extent succeeded in using words to universalize to my own individuality.”
“Declare church and state forever separate and distinct; but each free within their proper spheres.”
“The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees”
“Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.”

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