The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth?


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Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates ...
LOUIS PASTEUR
Very few of the men whose names have become great in the early pioneering of jazz and of swing were ...
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can b...
LOUIS FARRAKHAN
How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of th...
LOUIS KAHN
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
LOUIS KAHN
One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself g...
LOUIS NAVELLIER
Optimization tells us precisely how to diversify the portfolio, whether I should have 12% in semicon...
LOUIS NAVELLIER
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania f...
LOUIS ARAGON
Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
LOUIS ARAGON
Well, I tell you... the first chorus, I plays the melody. The second chorus, I plays the melody roun...
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'...
LOUIS SACHAR
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in qua...
LOUIS L'AMOUR
Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popula...
LOUIS LEAKEY
Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that ma...
LOUIS FARRAKHAN
I would rather be called a character actor than a star.
LOUIS JOURDAN
We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.
LOUIS LEAKEY
If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it's a h...
LOUIS L'AMOUR
In week one of the 'X Factor,' just to be a little bit quirky, I decided to say that I like ...
LOUIS TOMLINSON
Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which...
LOUIS PASTEUR
In January 1921, I found myself wonderfully alone in an empty carriage in a rocking train in the nig...
LOUIS MACNEICE
The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is al...
LOUIS GARREL
My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.
LOUIS SUSMAN
It's important for me to treat a girlfriend with respect. My mum would be horrified if I behaved...
LOUIS TOMLINSON
A lot of money could be saved if we ate urban wildlife.
LOUIS THEROUX
The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master...
LOUIS SULLIVAN
No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have t...
LOUIS L'AMOUR
Nationalism of the Irish type is often regarded as reactionary. With the World Revolution and the Cl...
LOUIS MACNEICE