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- Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic… — Adam Sedgwick
- Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that… — Anthony Trollope
- The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we… — Herman Wouk
- Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind… — Roger Caillois
- Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded… — Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or… — Vance Havner
- Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic… — D. V. Ager
- We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period,… — Gretchen Rubin