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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient…
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Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it, the most…
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I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full…
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We can only penetrate the rind of the earth.
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Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty…
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In general, the more one augments the number of divisions of the productions of nature, the more one approaches the truth, since…
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There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only…
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An Individual, whatever species it might be, is nothing in the Universe. A hundred, a thousand individuals are still nothing. The species…
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It appears that all that can be, is. The Creator's hand does not appear to have been opened in order to give…
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One can descend by imperceptible degree from the most perfect creature to the most shapeless matter, from the best-organised animal to the…
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The great workman of nature is time.
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The greatest marvel is not in the individual. It is in the succession, in the renewal and in the duration of the…
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When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for…
— Mark Twain
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Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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My grandfather did not travel across 4,000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this country overrun by immigrants. He did it…
— Stephen Colbert
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Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics…
— Kenneth Koch
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Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of…
— Herbert Croly
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If I had a brick for every time I’ve repeated the phrase Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value, I think I’d probably be…
— Ray Kroc
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Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean.
— Dionysius Lardner
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Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a…
— Stephen King
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I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.
— Oscar Wilde
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Harry is heavily into camping, and every year in the late fall, he makes us all go to Assateague, which is an…
— Dave Barry
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You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's…
— Cyndi Lauper
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way…
— H. L. Mencken
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