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William Buckland

"The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the taste for National and Local Antiquities. Geology gratifies a larger taste of this kind; it inquires into what may appropriately be termed the Antiquities of the Globe itself, and collects and deciphers what may be considered as the monuments and medals of its remoter eras."

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.6

William Buckland

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“Universities are seminaries to produce Leftists”
“The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.”

Source : Boston Medical and Surgical Journal 131: 140 (1894)
“The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men is exposed to that coincidence of various vexations, each heightening the effect of the other, which may produce in him something corresponding to the spontaneous and externally unaccountable moodiness of the morbid and disagreeable.”
“There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.”

Source : "Susan Minot's Torrid World of Individual Desire" by Will Blythe, www.elle.com. January 28, 2014.
“The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything I am being sympathetic, not satiric for the very best reasons.”
“Women are always murdered and maimed, and theyâ€™re never given their rightful place as lead characters! And I think [creator Michael Hirst] has just written what should have been written a long time ago. There shouldnâ€™tÂ beÂ anything that different aboutÂ Vikings, but there is, because thereâ€™ve just been so many shows that have not stepped up to the plate and given female actors and female characters equal footing.”
“The liberal understanding of 'the separation of church and state' means that as the area of politics expands, the area of private freedom - religious and otherwise - shrinks.”
“Winners never quit and quitters never win.”

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