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Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is…
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Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.
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Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it…
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Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not…
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Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of such catastrophes,…
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There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from…
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[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration…
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Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose…
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When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be…
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So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence of the…
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I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to…
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The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical…
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More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him…
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That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the…
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The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and…
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The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now.…
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Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
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For all these years I kept my mouth closed so selfish desires would not fall out. And because I remained quiet for…
— Amy Tan
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I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is…
— Ken Kesey
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I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest…
— William Goldman
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Sometimes I gave conflicting emotions because it's been going on for so long now, but then I see somebody dancing real well…
— Unknown Author
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In California, for so long now, our families have been struggling in this economic environment, and Dianne Feinstein, been in office nearly…
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