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Georges Cuvier Quotes

Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life.

Georges Cuvier

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: french
Birth: August 23, 1769 - May 13, 1832

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Life Today Time Mountains Long

The thing about Led Zeppelin was that it was always four musicians at the top of their game, but they could play like a band.

Jimmy Page

Game Musicians Play Band Top Always

I think I've succeeded more by learning what needed to be done next and getting help in getting it done. I was just very focused and impatient.

John Kendrew

Learning Think Help Done Focused

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.

Anita Desai

Disappointment Book Motivation Write

There is a prevailing school of thought that something good must take time, sometimes years to create and hone. I have always felt that the books I have written fastest have been my best - because I caught an unstoppable momentum in the writing.

Michael Connelly

Good Time Best School Writing

Work will take everything you give it. It's up to you to work out what you want to give it.

Amy Pascal

Work You Want Will Everything Out

You always want to know what happened before you. It's a human instinct to know where you came from and what preceded you.

Russell Freedman

You Know Want Human Always Where

In El Salvador, when neighbors were disappeared, tortured or killed, people doubted their own knowledge of the victims, and worried there must have been some secret guilt involved to deserve such punishment! That's how political terror succeeds.

Mimi Kennedy

Knowledge People Political Guilt Own

When you're dealing with digital goods, you don't have to be tied to one URL.

Jason Kilar

You Digital Dealing Tied Goods URL

I don't believe in hero worship.

Bobby Fischer

Hero Believe Worship

It's time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Time Door Start Thinking Party Stop

And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.

Anthony Quinn

Life Man Think Loved My Life He

This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.

William Labov

American America Grammar Vocabulary