Jean-Andre Deluc quotes
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“I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.”
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“We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it is as easy to read the history of the sea, as it is to read the history of Man in the archives of any nation.”
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“It will be contributing to bring forward the moment in which, seeing clearer into the nature of things, and having learnt to distinguish real knowledge from what has only the appearance of it, we shall be led to seek for exactness in every thing.”
-- Jean-Andre Deluc
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“All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.”
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Source : "A fence built for peace" by Abba Eban, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2004.
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“We have the ability to provide quality education to every child on earth right now.”
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Source : James Croll (1875). “Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's Climate”, p.4
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“I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.”
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“An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.”
Source : "Inherit the Wind". Play by Jerome Lawrence, 1955.
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“But monument themselves memorials need.”
Source : George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.38
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