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Othniel Charles Marsh

"In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and, where possible, to make the illustrations tell the main story to anatomists. The text of such a memoir may soon lose its interest, and belong to the past, but good figures are of permanent value. [Justifying elaborate illustrations in his monographs.]"

Source : Othniel Charles Marsh (1886). “Dinocerata: A Monograph of an Extinct Order of Gigantic Mammals”

Othniel Charles Marsh

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“Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.”
“This morning we were notified about the horrible news of the series of terrorist attacks in the United States, that have left a great trail of destruction. Mexico expresses its condolences to the Government and the American people for the irreparable human losses. We also express our energetic condemnation to these attacks. I have informed President George Bush of our feelings of sorrow and our solidarity in such difficult moments.”
“I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'”
“Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.”
“It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things.”
“Today, we see ISIS dwindling. We see that terrorist organization, with all their bravado, losing their territory and going back from a proto-state to an underground terrorist organization.”

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“I think that by telling the truth and by attempting to be a good citizen, somehow I've ended up playing with fire. And that's really scary.”

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“I consider that a most ignoble endeavor. The only way I would like to 'help' the great majority of people is the same way Carl Panzram 'reformed' people who tried to reform him. It would be most merciful to help them by relieving them of the life they seem to hate so much. People should be happy I'm not a humanitarian-or I'd probably be the most diabolical mass murderer the world has ever known.”

Source : Interview in Wendy Leigh's Speaking Frankly, 1978.

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