"It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected."

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Source : Georges Cuvier (Barón, (), Robert Jameson (1817). “Essay on the Theory of the Earth”, p.1

Georges Cuvier

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“If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.”
“Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.”
“People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed.”
“If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.”
“I try to live in the moment and let that moment carry me to the next great place.”
“I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.”
“I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.”

Source : "Anderson Cooper 360°", transcripts.cnn.com. January 5, 2012.
“God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.”

Source : Sigrid Undset (2013). “The Axe: The Master of Hestviken”, p.144, Vintage

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