"Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not yet occupied by man, land animals and forests now abound where the anchor once sank into the oozy bottom."

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Source : Sir Charles Lyell, Gérard Paul Deshayes (1830). “Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation”, p.255

Charles Lyell

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“Jehovah's Witness are welcomed into my home...You gotta respect anybody who gets all dressed up in Sunday clothes and goes door-to-door on days so hot their high heels sink a half-inch into the pavement.The trick is to do all the talking yourself. Pretty soon, they'll look at their watches and say, 'Speaking of end times, wouldja look at what time it is now!”
“Know that all times are Holy, that every religion holds truth, that each tradition is sacred, and that it is in the simple sharing of love that we make our beliefs come alive, and our dreams come true.”
“Youth, then, once ballyhooed as the epicenter of fun, hot dogs, hot sex, and marvelous dope-smoking good times, is now defined as follows: that period before death, characterized by smooth skin and ill-formed ideas.”

Source : Marilyn Suzanne Miller (2007). “How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe”, p.8, Simon and Schuster
“Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The only immortality we know of is our children, and in that unfinished story of the acts of lives, which, forever expanding, like waves from a pebble in the lake, have their immortality in the acts of future generations.”

Source : Raymond Bernard Cattell (1972). “A new morality from science: beyondism”, Pergamon
“A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.”
“A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.”
“I am a theist. I live life between that "a" and the "t." It's a vast little space.”

Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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