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Charles Lyell

"The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical world, that our study and contemplation of the earth, and the laws which govern its animate productions, ought no more to be considered in the light of a disturbance or deviation from the system, than the discovery of the satellites of Jupiter should be regarded as a physical event in the history of those heavenly bodies, however influential they may have become from that time in advancing the progress of sound philosophy among men."

Source : Charles Lyell, M. J. S. Rudwick (1990). “Principles of Geology”, p.163, University of Chicago Press

Charles Lyell

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“To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.”

Source : Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.576, Delacorte Press
“It's a great honour to be part of such an iconic brand as Paco Rabanne. It was totally different for me, so it was quite challenging in a sense, but it's an experience that I'm really enjoying. It's been just over a year and a half now. I'm really enjoying it and hopefully it will continue for a fair bit into the future.”
“Harvard (across the river in Cambridge) and Boston are two ends of one mustache. ... Without the faculty, the visitors, the events that Harvard brings to the life here, Boston would be intolerable to anyone except genealogists, antique dealers, and those who find repletion in a closed local society.”

Source : Elizabeth Hardwick (1962). “A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society”
“As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.”
“I'd just recorded it in Mariah Carey's studio. THey thought the song was perfect for Nina, because she's so shy, so it was nice to have that connection with Nina in the song. It was special.”
“I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.”
“Popularity isn't just something that happens. You have to give something in exchange for it, and that's the dangerous part of the process.”
“The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.”

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