#lan

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#connections #earth #first #fossil #history

I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#brave soldiers #burst #crashing #crawling #down

Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer. ↗

— Dick Dale

#buddy #buddy rich #could #doing #drummer

That's an economic development program in the metropolitan area. If they don't see that, and you don't get these things done, then you're competing with Texas and California and Atlanta; then you really have problems. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#atlanta #california #competing #development #done

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using. ↗

— Samuel Daniel

#best #cutting #full #grows #love

I always wanted to do films. I'd gone to New York early in 1976 and did a lot of theater, but I really wanted to chase the paths of people like Pacino and Lemmon and those guys. Alan Arkin. Film was where I wanted to go. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#always #chase #did #early #film

Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#already #been #below #certain #certain age

We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will? ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#assume #balance #believe #best #citizens

We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#always #ample #anytime #aside #balanced

Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#artificial intelligence #audiences #civilization #doubt #enter