"It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we are enabled to ascertain, with the utmost certainty, that our earth has not always been covered over by the same external crust, because we are thoroughly assured that the organized bodies to which these fossil remains belong must have lived upon the surface before they came to be buried, as they now are, at a great depth."

-- Georges Cuvier

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“Sooner or later we all must die. Warriors choose to do so on their feet, standing between their enemies and those they hold dear. With a weapon in their hands. Cowards choose to do so on their bellies. Unarmed.”
“I truly believe that the job of an actor and the drive of an actor is simulating the internal journey in life which is to get deeper and deeper into our understanding of who we are.”
“I'm a mediator by training and inclination.”

Source : "Back to the Basics" by Joan Blades, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2006.
“I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problemsâ€¦ or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable.”

Source : Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Frostbitten”, p.232, Bantam
“Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies?”
“Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.”
“I can't even imagine what it is like to make a movie that lasts two hours.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Nobody gets into a band and thinks they're going to have a 30-year career.”

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