"The problem that first demands solution is to discover the disruptive agent which would be potent enough to rip the Cloghvorra Stone from its parent bed, to bear it down the valley for miles, and to cast it on the mountain side."

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Source : Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1906). “The Cause of an Ice Age”

Robert Stawell Ball

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“The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.”
“Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.”
“The bands that have been the most important to me, and the records that have been the most important to me as a fan, have been records that surprised me for one reason or another.”
“When one realizes God, He grants knowledge and illumination from within; one knows it oneself. In the fullness of one's spiritual realization one will find that He who resides in one's heart, resides in the hearts of others as well - the oppressed, the persecuted, the untouchable, and the outcast.”
“You know what’s best for you, and you know what will make you happy.”

Source : Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 4, 2010.
“We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates.”
“To me the greatest thing that has happened on this earth of ours is the rise of the human race to the vision of God. That story of the human rise to what I call the vision of God is the story which is told in the Bible.”
“Life ... is a relationship between molecules.”

Source : Linus Pauling, Barclay Kamb (2001). “Linus Pauling: Selected Scientific Papers”, p.1168, World Scientific

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