"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."

-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“The true system of the World has been recognized, developed and perfected...Everything has been discussed and analysed, or at least mentioned.”

Source : 1759 Elements of Philosophy.
“I think you reveal yourself by what you choose to photograph, but I prefer photographs that tell more about the subject. There's nothing much interesting to tell about me; what's interesting is the person I'm photographing, and that's what I try to show. [...] I think each photographer has a point of view and a way of looking at the world... that has to do with your subject matter and how you choose to present it. What's interesting is letting people tell you about themselves in the picture.”
“One lion thinks it's just hilarious to tackle us. He's very funny about it... and we always know when it will happen.”
“I have to be honest in asking myself: Do I really want to know and do God's will? Or is it rather that I want God to do my will? Do I go to God with the assurance that I want only to know and do his will? Or do I rather first make my own plans and then insist that God make my dreams come true?”
“I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.”
“I just want to be me and play golf.”
“No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.”
“Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our Knowledge, and by consequence our Power, over a third part of nature, holds a low place among intellectual employments.”

Source : William Buckland (1820). “Vindiciæ Geologicæ: The Connexion of Geology with Religion, Explained in an Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before University of Oxford, May 15, 1819, on the Endowment of Readership in Geology”, p.7

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