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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 world, that our… — Charles Lyell
Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach… — Adam Sedgwick
On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which… — Adam Sedgwick
We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised… — James Madison
The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost but little which it needs… — James Madison
We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the many Protestant denominations,… — Harry S. Truman
A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of… — Arthur C. Clarke
One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if its plane coincided… — Arthur C. Clarke
The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of a… — Thomas Kuhn
[T]he period between four and six in the morning is called the Brahmamuhurta, the Brahmic time, or divine period, and is a very sacred time… — Swami Satchidananda
Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences… — Thomas Jefferson
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. — Mike Binder
I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable in Russia. It may someday… — Stuart Chase
I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type… — Oprah Winfrey
I'm in a different chapter of my life. As time goes by and I grow older, I find that I need to just be quiet… — Martin Scorsese
The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject… — Thomas Jefferson
If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal… — Orrin Hatch
Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal. — Janet Reno
The Second Amendment of our Bill of Rights is my Concealed Weapons Permit, period. — Ted Nugent
Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was… — Thomas Huxley
That the different Christian confessions, aware of the need for a new evangelisation in this period of profound transformations, may be committed to announcing the… — Pope Benedict XVI
I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst… — Gary Barlow
Attachment is the food for the mind to continue. Non-attached witnessing is the way to stop it without any effort to stop it. And when… — Rajneesh
We all felt the majesty of the body. In a very short period of time we had seen something that was bigger than each of… — William DeVries

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