"Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister, Geology, gave it the means."

-- Charles Lapworth

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“Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men. It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.”
“My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.”
“It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.”
“My life changed completely in 1989 with the fall of the wall,”
“OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.”

Source : "Interview with Ximian's Nat Friedman". Interview with Eugenia Loli, www.osnews.com. June 3, 2003.
“I find a difference between what gets called world music - a fusion of western music and music from different cultures in more of a modernized version - and Explorer Series stuff, which is completely undiluted indigenous folk music. That's a lot more powerful than a lot of the super-processed stuff that comes out now.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I thought that my movie career was finished. I was quite happy to dedicate myself 100% to the theater. Surprisingly enough, I've never gotten so many work offers. It's so exciting, this feeling of a new beginning after 40.”
“The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.”

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