"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

Roderick Murchison

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“If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.”
“Ideally, nothing should be embraced by a consumer firmly, nothing should command a commitment till death do us part, no needs should be seen as fully satisfied, no desires considered ultimate. There ought to be a proviso 'until further notice' attached to any oath of loyalty and any commitment. It is but the volatility, the in-built temporality of all engagements that truly counts; it counts more than the commitment itself, which is anyway not allowed to outlast the time necessary for consuming the object of desire (or, rather, the time sufficient for the desirability of that object to wane).”
“He looked down and did something quite out of character for him: he took hold of Shmuel's tiny hand in his and squeezed it tightly. "You're my best friend, Shmuel," he said. "My best friend for life.”

Source : John Boyne (2016). “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”, p.329, Random House
“Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.”
“Yesterday people were going past my window in t shirts and dresses. But that's the men at the BBC for you.”

Source : "Weather" by Eddie Mair, www.bbc.co.uk. September 22, 2006.
“Manchester's got everything except a beach.”

Source : "Manchester's missing tech scene? Here comes the resurrection ..." by Rob Coupland, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2013.
“If you go to a therapist, they say, 'Are you sure? How do you feel about your wrinkles?' And I say, 'I don't know, because I don't really see them.' I see my hands, but I don't see my face, so it's not a torment. I only see it for five minutes in the morning when I brush my teeth! When you read women's magazines you always read about this drama of getting old, about anti-aging cream and plastic surgery and whatever else. But I think if you're independent, like I have grown to be, it's welcome.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“And all Niki really has to do now is coast”

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