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James Dwight Dana

"There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the earlier telling of God-made harmonies coming up from the deep past, and rising to their height when man appeared, the later teaching man's relations to his Maker, and speaking of loftier harmonies in the eternal future."

Source : James Dwight Dana (1875). “Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special Reference to American Geological History”, p.770

James Dwight Dana

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“Whatever I'm working on, I get excited. It does not matter whether I have done the same piece many times. I still can't wait to get out to the shop in the morning.”
“Remember - no limitation can be placed on you by any one but yourself. With your imagination you have a unique ability to draw on an infinite source of supply. There is power in thought.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Mar 04, 2013
“For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence.”
“History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the king's bastards but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the way of human folly.”
“To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When the damming happens without good reason . . . then it's a tragedy of diminishment for the whole planet, a loss of one more wild thing, leaving Earth just a little flatter and tamer and simpler and uglier than before.”

Source : David Quammen (2012). “Wild Thoughts from Wild Places”, p.73, Simon and Schuster
“An entrepreneur in debt is an entrepreneur in business.”
“Friendship is a Spackle in itself. You'll forgive your friends a lot, and if you're a woman, you'll forgive your straight male friends even more. They represent the possibility of mutual toleration between the sexes, a keyhole into the mind of the Other, and the promise of one day meeting someone just like them except that you want to sleep with them.”
“If you find life on Europa [Jupiter's moon], like, what would you call it? Would it be, like, Europeans?”

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