"When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld."

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Source : Charles Lyell (2005). “The Geological Evidence of Man”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

Charles Lyell

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“The Lord, before His Incarnation, let mankind experience all the bitterness of sin, all their powerlessness to eradicate it; and when all longed for a Deliverer, then He appeared, the most wise, all-powerful Physician and Helper. When men hungered and thirsted after righteousness, as it grew weaker, then the everlasting righteousness came.”
“Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.”
“I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.”

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“My lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight. She has always been there throughout my career and continues to be at my side.”
“A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.”
“Good acting should be invisible. You shouldn't be aware of the acting. It should feel real.”
“I'm not ashamed; I work hard to look how I do.”
“We cannot build county councils based on one single constituency. It doesn't make sense because it does not have a sufficient revenue base to be able to provide the services that county councils are required to provide.”

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