"Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is usually commenced from, and often confined to, his structure, that a knowledge of the archetype has been so long hidden from anatomists."

-- Charles Lyell

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“In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.”
“Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.”
“My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.”
“I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.”
“The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change, so do the former.”
“What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?”

Source : Terry Brooks (2012). “Terry Brooks Starter Pack 4-Book Bundle: The Sword of Shannara, Magic Kingdom for Sale: Sold!, Running with the Demon, Armageddon's Children”, p.426, Del Rey
“Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who he was - it was because of who I am. It's true, though, that I felt I shouldn't compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died.”
“Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.”

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