Georges Cuvier Quotes

Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development.

Georges Cuvier

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.

John Burroughs

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As I've always said, 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' I'm much better with women than I am being tough in a bar!

Michael Biehn

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If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.

Sun Tzu

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There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

Sigourney Weaver

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If we're going to build hardware, the thing we want to do is build reading goggles, so you can do hands-free reading.

Trip Adler

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Mandatory arbitration clauses I think, more often than not, work to the detriment of working people.

Tom Perez

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The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.

Roger Federer

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I'm always ready to be challenged. Like, 'Wings: Outro,' it was hip-house. That was the first time I'd ever listened to that genre... but I liked it.

RM

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I took on the math-intensive art form of holography and, in my early 20s, traveled the world, living on university fellowships to pursue this esoteric craft. I didn't date much, really - perhaps because I didn't have many hormones, though I didn't know that at the time.

Mary Lou Jepsen

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You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them a taste of what Journey used to be like.

Jonathan Cain

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I follow a routine on a daily basis, which comprises dance class, gymnastics, and going to the gym. I also spend about half an hour on yoga, too.

Disha Patani

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On a regular basis, I conduct work in the Amazon, establishing trade for medicinal plants, and working with small communities to improve their economies and to help protect forest acreage.

Chris Kilham

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