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Describing new species of dinosaurs is the first step in piecing together what these past ecosystems looked like and in learning about how they changed over time. – Jeremy Lockwood	Found on CNN 2 years ago
During our field school excavations at Drimolen, a student began uncovering a cluster of fragments. We could see that they were parts of a skull. But they werent immediately identifiable, over the course of the field season more and more fragments were uncovered. We began piecing them together. No one could decide what this skullcap was from, until one night it all came together -- and we realised we were looking at a hominin! – Stephanie Baker	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Pitching Quip at the beginning was a bit of a challenge, for the first six months, we were piecing together $ 10,000 here, $ 20,000 there. – Simon Enever	Found on CNN 5 years ago
For the first six months, we were piecing together $ 10,000 here, $ 20,000 there. – Simon Enever	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We've made significant progress in piecing together pieces of this puzzle to find out what happened. – Detectives Dermot Shea	Found on CNN 5 years ago
North Korea never goes out of its way to clarify for the rest of the world the titles, roles and responsibilities of anyone in North Korea. It considers confusing the rest of the world to be an important element of its security strategy, regime watchers are always left piecing clues together about who is in charge of what, and why, and for how long. – Eric Foley	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
This unique find is of international importance. It dates to around 400–250 BC, and is probably the earliest Iron Age gold work ever discovered in Britain, the torcs were probably worn by wealthy and powerful women, perhaps people from the continent who had married into the local community. Piecing together how these objects came to be carefully buried in a Staffordshire field will give us an invaluable insight into life in Iron Age Britain. – Julia Farley	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
With the Pranksters, and with the Acid Test, we learned so much about sort of living in each others' heads, hearts, and bodies, and sharing music. Our concept of what constitutes music expanded greatly at that time. It comes from the disorientation that you have when you take LSD. You start piecing the world back together, and your realize, well I'm here to make music, whatever that is. (long pause) You know, it's hard for me to explain. Let me start over. – Phil Lesh -LRB- bass -RRB-	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. – H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"	added by anonymous 13 years ago

Describing new species of dinosaurs is the first step in piecing together what these past ecosystems looked like and in learning about how they changed over time.

– Jeremy Lockwood

Found on CNN
2 years ago

During our field school excavations at Drimolen, a student began uncovering a cluster of fragments. We could see that they were parts of a skull. But they werent immediately identifiable, over the course of the field season more and more fragments were uncovered. We began piecing them together. No one could decide what this skullcap was from, until one night it all came together -- and we realised we were looking at a hominin!

– Stephanie Baker

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Pitching Quip at the beginning was a bit of a challenge, for the first six months, we were piecing together $ 10,000 here, $ 20,000 there.

– Simon Enever

Found on CNN
5 years ago

For the first six months, we were piecing together $ 10,000 here, $ 20,000 there.

– Simon Enever

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We've made significant progress in piecing together pieces of this puzzle to find out what happened.

– Detectives Dermot Shea

Found on CNN
5 years ago

North Korea never goes out of its way to clarify for the rest of the world the titles, roles and responsibilities of anyone in North Korea. It considers confusing the rest of the world to be an important element of its security strategy, regime watchers are always left piecing clues together about who is in charge of what, and why, and for how long.

– Eric Foley

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

This unique find is of international importance. It dates to around 400–250 BC, and is probably the earliest Iron Age gold work ever discovered in Britain, the torcs were probably worn by wealthy and powerful women, perhaps people from the continent who had married into the local community. Piecing together how these objects came to be carefully buried in a Staffordshire field will give us an invaluable insight into life in Iron Age Britain.

– Julia Farley

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

With the Pranksters, and with the Acid Test, we learned so much about sort of living in each others' heads, hearts, and bodies, and sharing music. Our concept of what constitutes music expanded greatly at that time. It comes from the disorientation that you have when you take LSD. You start piecing the world back together, and your realize, well I'm here to make music, whatever that is. (long pause) You know, it's hard for me to explain. Let me start over.

– Phil Lesh -LRB- bass -RRB-

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

– H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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