"The mineral kingdom consists of the fossil substances found in the earth. These are either entirely destitute of organic structure, or, having once possessed it, possess it no longer: such are the petrefactions."

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Source : William Withering, Torbern Bergman (1822). “The miscellaneous tracts of the late William Withering: to which is prefixed a memoir of his life, character, and writings”, p.9

Torbern Bergman

#Earth Quotes #Kingdoms Quotes #Fossils Quotes

“When there was a disaster, it used to be that people went to church and all held hands. Now the minute anything happens they run to CNN.”
“Dweezil and I are going on tour with the band probably starting in the middle of February for a month probably playing a few songs from my new record and then I'll continue on after that tour”
“Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles, justice and freedom.”
“Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
“Every angry thought makes it a little easier to get angry the next time, and a little more likely.”

Source : Eknath Easwaran (2009). “Essence of the Upanishads: A Key to Indian Spirituality”, p.167, Nilgiri Press
“It's toys, boy, all toys. You'll see more and more contraptions as you get older, but if I teach you anything, you'll learn that all of this is decoration. What counts is what's inside you and what you can see in others.”

Source : Stefan Petrucha (2012). “Ripper”, Penguin
“Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.”
“I have the kind of personality that I always look ahead than look at what's happened. It does help a lot, especially when you've done badly or you've failed. It's instinctive of me that I look at what's next, I look ahead a lot, and start preparing for that, in victory and in defeat.”

Source : "I Don't Try to Be a Paragon of Virtue: Rahul Dravid". Interview with Saurabh Somani, sports.ndtv.com. October 04, 2013.

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