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"13 Going on 30"

"12 Years a Slave"

"12 Angry Men"

"10th Kingdom, The"

"10 Things I Hate About You"

"9 (2009 animated)"

"7 Faces of Dr. Lao"

"3:10 to Yuma"

"3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain"

"3 Ninjas Knuckle Up"

"3 Ninjas Kick Back"

"The Macedonians are a people closely related to the Serbs (...these prefer peaceful life, unlike the mountainous Vlachs)... Skopje is on the boundary between Dardania on the north and Macedonia on the south... And there flows the Vardar river... While the bridge of the Strymon river - near Gegligovo (the area between Kumanovo and Kriva Palanka), the valley of Konopnica and Velbuzd (Kyustendil) - separates the Macedonians from the Triballi or the Bulgars. ...The boundary between the Dardanians, Tribali and the Macedonians is actually the southern border of Rascia (Serbia)... The Drin river flows out of the lake near Ohrid, a city of the Macedonians, and it separates them from the Dardanians. ...The Dinaric Mountains range separates Macedonia from Epirus, Thessaly, Volos, Acarnania, Aetolia, Boeotia and Athos, and on the other (eastern) side, the Macedonians and the Besi tribe border with the Triballi, Skordisces and the Thracians at the Pirin Mountain which ends up at the Aegean Sea. ...Struma is boundary between the Thracians and the Macedonians. ...The Greek settlements are located around the Thessalonika Bay, south from Thessalonika - the most famous city of the Macedonians.""

"Pro-choice, the view that women should have the choice of whether or not to terminate a pregnancy"

"Political correctness, language or behavior that appears calculated to provide a minimum of offense"

"Personal computer, a general-purpose computer for individuals"

"The Sonata in B minor is not a favourite with the writer of this book, even if it is admitted to be a proud passage of Romanticism. In the hands of Busoni, or even of Horowitz, it sounds magnificent; but, in the opinion of the writer, always empty; and, unless it is played by such pianists as these, the awkwardness of the pauses and the jerky staccato sentiment render the Sonata painful and irritating to the nerves."

"I would like the angels of Heaven to be among us. I would like an abundance of peace. I would like full vessels of charity. I would like rich treasures of mercy. I would like cheerfulness to preside over all. I would like Jesus to be present. I would like the three Marys of illustrious renown to be with us. I would like the friends of Heaven to be gathered around us from all parts. I would like myself to be a rent payer to the Lord; that I should suffer distress, that he would bestow a good blessing upon me. I would like a great lake of beer for the King of Kings. I would like to be watching Heaven's family drinking it through all eternity."

"The Wernerians were as certain of the origin and sequence of rocks as if they been present at the formation of the earth's crust. Yet in a few years their notions and overweening confidence became a laughing-stock."

"It seems to me that one important lesson to be learnt from a review of the successive stages in the foundation and development of geology is the absolute necessity of avoiding dogmatism. Let us remember how often geological theory has altered. The Catastrophists had it all their own way until the Uniformitarians got the upper hand, only to be in turn displaced by the Evolutionists."

"If geologists... could only be brought to realise that the addition of another paper to the swollen flood of our scientific literature involves a serious responsibility; that no man should publish what is not of real consequence, and that his statements should be as clear and condensed as he can make them, what a blessed change would come over the faces of their readers, and how greatly would they conduce to the real advance of science which they wish to serve!"

"In the case of geological literature, a large mass of the writing of the present time is of little or no value for any of the higher purposes of the science, and... it may quite safely and profitably, both as regards time and temper, be left unread."

"...the permanent vitality of truth. The seed may be long in showing signs of life, but these signs come at last."

"We are warned to be on the lookout for the unrecognized meanings and applications in the work of our own day and in that of older date. We are taught the necessity not only of keeping ourselves abreast of the progress of science at the present time, but also of making ourselves acquainted as far as we possibly can with the labours of our predecessors."

"How slowly the key that now unlocks the innermost mysteries of rock-structure was made use of. Five and twenty years after William Nicol had shown how stony substances could be investigated by means of the microscope, before Mr. Sorby called the attention of geologists to the enormous value of the method thus put into their hands."

"Note how long the controversy lasted over the origin of basalt, and how slowly came the recognition of volcanic action as a normal part of terrestrial energy... Mark also, in the history of physiographical geology, that though the principles of this branch of science were in large measure grasped by Desmarest, De Saussure and Hutton in the eighteenth century, their work was neglected and forgotten until the whole subject has been revived amd marvellously extended in our own day."

"The history of geological science presents some conspicuous examples of the length of time that may elapse before a fecund idea comes to germinate and bear fruit. Consider for a moment how many years passed before the stratigraphical conceptions of [G.C.] Füchsel, Lehmann, and [the Abbé, Jean-Louis] Giraud-Soulavie took more definite shape in the detailed investigations of Cuvier, Brongniart and Smith, and how many more years were needed before the Secondary and Tertiary formations were definitely arranged and subdivided as they now stand in out tables. ...even after the principles of stratigraphy had been settled, a quarter of a century had slipped away before they were successfully applied to the Transition rocks, and a still longer time before the system of zonal classification was elaborated."

"From the beginning of its career, geology has owed its foundation and its advance to no select and privileged class. ...No branch of natural knowledge lies more invitingly open to every student who, loving the fresh face of Nature, is willing to train his faculty of observation in the field, and to discipline his mind by the patient correlation of facts and the fearless dissection of theories."

"The reproach that it was impossible to look at a mountain through a microscope was brought forward in opposition to the new departure which he [Sorby] advocated. Well did he reply by anticipation to this objection. "Some geologists, only to examine large masses in the field, may perhaps be disposed to question the value of the facts I have described, and to think the objects so minute as to be quite beneath their notice, and that all attempts at accurate calculations from such small data are quite inadmissible. What other science, however, has prospered by proposing such a creed? ...I ague that there is no necessary connection between the size of an object and the value of the fact, and that, though the objects I describe are minute, the conclusions to be derived from the facts are great.""

"Sorby... for the first time, showed how, by means of a microscope, it was possible to discover the minute structure and composition of rocks, and to learn much regarding their mode of origin. He took us... into the depths of a volcanic focus, and revealed the manner in which lavas acquire their characters. He carried us still deeper into the terrestrial crust, and laid open the secrets of those profound abysses in which granitic rocks have been prepared."

"William Nicol was never adequately recognised in his lifetime."

"At last Mr. Henry Clifton Sorby came to Edinburgh, and...was particularly struck with the series of slices illustrating "fluid cavities," and at once saw that the subject was one of which the further prosecution could not fail to "lead to important conclusions in geological theory." He soon... made sections of mica-schist, and... threw his whole energy into the investigation for several years, and produced at last in 1858 the well-known memoir, On the Microscopical Structure of Crystals, which marks one of the most prominent epochs of modern geology."

"When Nicol died, his instruments and preparations passed into the hands of the late Mr. Alexander Bryson of Edinburgh, who... made many additions to the collections which he had acquired. In particluar, he made numerous thin slices of minerals and rocks for the purpose of exhibiting the cavities containing fluid, which had been described long before by David Brewster and Nicol."

"I am afraid that the geologists are about as difficult to move as their own erratic blocks. They took no notice of the possibilities put in their way by William Nicol."

"Nicol hit upon the plan of cutting sections of fossil wood, so as to reveal its minutest vegetable structures. He took a slice from the specimen to be studied, ground it perfectly flat, polished it, and cemented it by means of Canada balsam to a piece of plate-glass. The exposed surface of the slice was then ground down, until the piece of stone was reduced to a thin pellicle adhering to the glass, and the requisite degree of transparency was obtained. Many of these were described by Henry Witham in his Observations of Fossil Vegetables (1831)."

"It appeared to me that it might be useful to recount the story of a few of the great pioneers during the momentous period... and to show, from their struggles, their failures, and their successes, how geological ideas and theories arose, and were step by step worked out into the forms they now wear."

"In order to trace the history of... petrographical resuscitation we must... transport ourselves to the workshop of an ingenious and inventive mechanician, William Nicol... Among his inventions was the famous prism of Iceland spar that bears his name. Every petrographer will acknowledge how indispensable this little piece of apparatus is in his microscopic investigations. ...it was the same skillful hands that devised the process of making thin slices of minerals and rocks, whereby the microscopic examination of these substances has become possible."

"Let us hold high the torch of science, and pass it on bright and burning to those who shall receive it from our hands."

"I was influenced by my experience of the limited acquaintance with the historical development of the science which has often been shown, even by those who have done good service in enlarging its boundaries. English-speaking geologists have for the most part contented themselves with the excellent, but necessarily brief, summary of the subject given by Lyell in the introductory chapters of his classic Principles, no fuller digest of geological history having been published in their language."

"While availing ourselves freely of the use of hypothesis as an aid in ascertaining the connection and significance of facts, we must be ever on our guard against premature speculation and theory, clearly distinguishing between what is fact and what may be our own gloss or interpretation of it."

"Each of us has it in his power to add to this accumulation of knowledge. Careful and accurate observation is always welcome, and may eventually prove of signal importance."

"What seems to be a well-established deduction in one age may be seen to be more or less erroneous in the next."

"The Master (2012 film) - a 2012 American drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams."

"Master (Doctor Who) - a recurring character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its associated spin-off works. The Master is a renegade alien Time Lord and the archenemy of the title character the Doctor."

"Eliza Acton(April 17, 1799 – February 13, 1859), English poet and cook"

"John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902), English historian"

"If the motion of a particle is such that in equal intervals of time, however short, the displacements of the particles are equal and in the same direction, the particle is said to move with constant velocity. ...the path of the body will be a straight line, and the length of any part of the path will be proportional to the time of describing it."

"For most workers the transition to socialism held out considerably fewer rewards. Though everyone appreciated job security and a steady income—especially those who had experienced the 1930s—living conditions were still poor and the shortages of consumer goods and sometimes even food clashed with socialist ideals of plenty. Even worse was the lack of working-class autonomy. All over eastern Europe workers had tasted influence and power of their own in the immediate postwar years. In some areas factory councils had taken over the running of plants or negotiated deals with the owners. By the late 1940s Communist trade unions came in and took over workers’ organizations, and officials appointed by the authorities were the new bosses. They set production quotas after instructions from above, and workers had little influence on their daily existence. Workers protested everywhere, with some condemning the Communists as Nazis in disguise. Gradually, in the post-Stalin era the authorities tried to buy off workers’ protests through accepting lower levels of productivity and increasing subsidies on food and rent."

"If people no longer accept their condition as low-paid wage laborers without secure employment, our economic system collapses."

"Most people have no alternative but to sell their ability to work for a wage and inevitably be paid less than the value they produce. This is the capital order, the backbone of our society that we do not criticize or even discuss. It is only through the lens of class that we can escape this trap and understand the functioning of our economic system and the policies implemented to govern it."

"The academy now boasts specialists by thousands in Asian studies, GLT studies, Latino/a studies, Native American studies, and multicultural studies, but barely a handful in proletarian studies. It still hasn't found a way to become serious about class."