All the work of the crystallographers serves only to demonstrate that there is only variety everywhere where they … - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

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More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful '70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

All the work of the crystallographers serves only to demonstrate that there is only variety everywhere where they suppose uniformity. . . that in nature there is nothing absolute, nothing perfectly regular.

Absolute, Absolutes, Nothing, Uniformity, Variety

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Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

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He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess.

Animal, Animals, Equally, Insatiable, Men, Vanity

Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.

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Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries are no guarantees of immortality. . . These things are exterior to a man but style is the man himself.

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Style is the essence of man

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