It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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As far as I'm concerned, I did'nt dream; ever. ~Theodore Sturgeon
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion. ~Eric Maisel
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Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask. ~Kate Winslet
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought. ~Dallas Willard
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. ~Stephen Rea
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Every proverb speaketh sooth; dreams and omens mask the truth. ~Welsh Proverb
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. ~Frank B. Kellogg
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There's a myth that free-to-play is cheaper than a $60 game. It's just elastic. For some users, it winds up being a lot more expensive. I would have paid $150 a year to get a better version of FIFA. ~Mitch Lasky
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. ~John Polkinghorne
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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I think inspiration is always around; it is just a question of whether or not you are noticing it. ~John Green
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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