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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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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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The first order of things to be changed is me, the leader. After I consider how hard it is to change myself,…
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Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite…
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Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
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He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all…
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First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems.
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Alafair Burke understands the criminal mind. Long Gone is both an education and an entertainment of the first order. This is a…
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Well the first order of government is to preserve the public order and safety.
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Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you, its first order of business is to preserve itself, and the way…
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Congratulation s to Rahm Emanuel on being elected mayor of Chicago. His first order of business after taking office will be to…
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Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books.…
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