"That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is not bone, but brain."

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Source : Hugh Miller, Louis Agassiz (1859). “The Foot-prints of the Creator: Or, The Asterolepis of Stromness”, p.160

Hugh Miller

#Brain Quotes #Special Quotes #World Quotes

“Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds youâ€”and it will find you”
“Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away.”
“There is a policy in manner. I have heard one, not inexperienced in the pursuit of fame, give it his earnest support, as being the surest passport to absolute and brilliant success.”
“My parents are from Ghana. Until I was 17, I thought you had to go to college. I had no idea. I didn't know it was not an option.”

Source : "'Copper's' Ato Essandoh: 'I look at Doctor Who'". Interview with Jacqueline Cutler, screenertv.com. June 30, 2013.
“The world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating.”
“Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.”
“Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm.”
“I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.”

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