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Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical…
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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going…
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According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep…
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Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that…
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All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and…
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[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a…
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Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.
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It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon…
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The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.
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Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye,…
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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated…
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...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we…
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Fight to the last gasp.
— William Shakespeare
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I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going…
— John Herschel
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The difference between a hero and an also-ran is the guy who hangs on for one last gasp.
— Paul Dietzel
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Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is…
— Lyman Abbott
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In a democracy, hostage tactics are the last resort for those who can’t otherwise win their fights through elections, can’t win their…
— Elizabeth Warren
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Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have…
— Gilbert Adair
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I feel like as musicians we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what’s happening in the…
— Thom Yorke
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If love lives through all life; and survives through all sorrow; and remains steadfast with us through all changes; and in all…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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The car emitted on last gasp and rolled to a stop, in the middle of the Altlantic Ocean. "We're here," Leven tried…
— Obert Skye
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Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.
— William Shakespeare
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He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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