Archibald Geikie Quotes
Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... When spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist, and the student emerge from the dust of town into the joyous air of the country, for a few delightful hours among the rocks.
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I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen.
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I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
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I love being a redhead. It's a rare thing, so I think there's a bond between redheads.
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I was diagnosed as mentally retarded as late as the fourth grade.
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Three tomatoes are walking down the street-a poppa tomato, a mamma tomato, and a little baby tomato. Baby tomato starts lagging behind. Poppa tomato gets angry, goes over to the baby tomato, and smooshes him and says, Catch up.
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Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.
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God isn't separate from us, because He's the love inside our minds. Every problem, inside and out, is due to a separation from love on someone's part. Thirty-five thousand people a day die of hunger on earth, and there's no dearth of food. The question is not 'what kind of God would let children starve?' but rather, 'What kind of people let children starve?'
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I tell ya, with my wife, I got no sex life. Her favorite position is facing Bloomingdale's.
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Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.
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What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.
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For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by the effect it exerts on the people. And this alone gives the standard for the speaker's genius.
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They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.
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Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete.
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I'd do a show about garbagemen if it was good!
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In 1835 at Kirtland I learned from my Sisters Husband Lyman R. Shirman, who was close to the Prophet and Received it from him. That the ancient order of plural marriage was again to be practiced by the Church.
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Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... When spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist, and the student emerge from the dust of town into the joyous air of the country, for a few delightful hours among the rocks.
