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"In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the operations of matter and the abstract mental processes of the most abstract branch of mathematical science."
"The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which now exist or have existed; the sudden manner in which whole groups of species appear in our European formations; the almost entire absence, as at present known, of fossiliferous formations beneath the Silurian strata, are all undoubtedly of the gravest nature."
"So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it."
"As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after."
"The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing."
"I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain."
"Link Wray is the all-time legend."
"I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality, he will not achieve even superficial credibility, let alone authenticity and inner truth."
"My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied."
"A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature."
"It was the sheer force of the letters themselves which brought forth the meaning, since the only link between the Sephirot of non-verbal Wisdom and verbal Intelligence was through the letters of the alphabet."
"The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region."
"Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links Both Goddesses and Gods."
"If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all."
"Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks."
"Consciousness is the inner spark or inner link in us, the golden link within us that connects our highest and most illumined part with our lowest and most unillumined part. Consciousness is the connecting link between Heaven and earth."
"I just want to do movies, and I want to sell them. I don't want to link up with some product."
"Link Wray... He was the beginning of Grunge, way before anybody you know."
"The written word is the link between the past and the future."
"The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable."
