"Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the surface and external structure of our planet."

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Source : Sir Charles Lyell, Gérard Paul Deshayes (1830). “Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation”, p.1

Charles Lyell

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“Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.”
“So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men.”

Source : "Cecile Richards DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
“A single tree doesn't make a forest.”

Source : Chris Bradford (2010). “The Ring of Earth (Young Samurai, Book 4): The Ring of Earth”, p.144, Penguin UK
“You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.”

Source : "Happy birthday Mr F1: A birthday tribute to motorsport legend Murray Walker" by Byron Young, www.mirror.co.uk. October 10, 2012.
“Give him a crowd, a gallery worthy of his best effort, and the old warrior will put on his show... He isn't what he use to be. But pack the stands, turn up the lights, and who is it brings down the house with his act? The Babe!”
“I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face.”
“It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.”

Source : Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, Simon and Schuster
“In many parts of the world-including Polynesia, north Africa & the Middle East-public dancing that focused on a physically linked couple would have been unthinkable, a violation of communal propriety.”

Source : Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books

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