Charles Lyell Quotes

No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them.

Charles Lyell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 14, 1797 - February 22, 1875

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I think my dream would be to move into film, purely because there's a definite beginning, middle and end to a project. I struggle a bit with such a big series that's going all the time.

Jessica Raine

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Everybody tries to take a tragedy and turn it to their own political purposes, and it's both sides.

Stan Van Gundy

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The number of people in America killed by firearms is extraordinary compared to other nations, and I don't think we're a bloodthirsty country. We need to look at everything we can do to safeguard our people.

Stanley A. McChrystal

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In the Communist era, excrement took on political importance, because Party policy decided excrement was essential for the Great Agricultural Leap Forward.

Rose George

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We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it.

Donna Brazile

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I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

David Wenham

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I haven't turned into some rich monster. I've kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. It's hard not to be a little spoiled by having a lot of money.

Christine McVie

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Your role as a founder changes dramatically once your team hits 10, 20, 50, 100, and so on. Sometimes you forget how big you've grown and continue to act as if you're still 10 people.

Christine Tsai

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Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

Bob Feller

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Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different way of addressing it.

Anne Sweeney

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For many children, the sport they do is because that is the one that was most available to them.

Princess Anne

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The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.

Peter DeFazio

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