"I might have become a millionaire, but I chose to become a tramp."

-- John Muir

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“The living body is intelligent beyond our understanding; it is incomprehensibly intelligent.”
“Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.”
“A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.”
“Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives once left behind. I carve out rough answers as best I can. I have even drawn them on the walls. It is as if a silent, greater family, stretching down the centuries, were peopling the house.”
“Elizabeth Hurley and I had a lot of fun together. She's a very beautiful, confident woman”
“... Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, two publications read more faithfully in Hollywood than the Koran is in Mecca.”
“Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what youâ€™ve achieved.”
“The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation from lower to higher grades of being. The first fiat of Creation which went forth, doubtlessly ensured the perfect adaptation of animals to the surrounding media; and thus, whilst the geologist recognizes a beginning, he can see in the innumerable facts of the eye of the earliest crustacean, the same evidences of Omniscience as in the completion of the vertebrate form.”

Source : Roderick Impey Murchison (1854). “Siluria the History of the Oldest Known Rocks Containing Organic Remains, with a Brief Sketch of the Distribution of Gold Over the Earth by Roderick Impey Murchison”, p.469

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