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The development doctrines are doing much harm on both sides of the Atlantic, especially among intelligent mechanics, and a class of young…
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Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when…
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The existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The foot-print in the sand-to refer to his…
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The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do…
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Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in…
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No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They…
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That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale…
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Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an…
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Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.
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It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.
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It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men it dwindles and…
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The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to…
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As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is necessary to…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes.…
— George Orwell
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History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which…
— Carl Sagan
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History is full of surprises.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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History is full of people who thought they were right -- absolutely right, completely right, without a shadow of a doubt. And…
— John D. Barrow
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History is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive.
— Francis James Grimke
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History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.
— Sara Sheridan
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History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument…
— Sarah Vowell
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History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with…
— F. M. Powicke
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In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their…
— Manuel Puig
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You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.
— William Landay
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History is full of wrongs done the wife by legal robbery on the part of the husband. I hesitate not to assert…
— Matilda Joslyn Gage
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