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Buffon's response was caustic when he suggested he might consider it if the minister would like to tell him where the money might go instead.
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Others to offer their opposition include Buffon's team-mate Giampaolo Pazzini and Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas.
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Even though all these points were made in fragmentary form, and often without satisfactory development from a general philosophical point of view, their presentation in Buffon's widely influential work profoundly affected the subsequent tradition of natural history.
Evolution Sloan, Phillip 2008
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Buffon's new “style” of natural-historical inquiry also disconnected it from its long association with providential
Evolution Sloan, Phillip 2008
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Buffon's Epochs appears to have had an uneven impact on subsequent reflections on these issues outside of France (Roger in Buffon 1988, cxxiv).
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Unlike Aristotle's substantial form, however, Buffon's internal mold is passive and without an internal finality in its action.
Evolution Sloan, Phillip 2008
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"He's (Buffon's) a great person," Italian striker Francesco Totti told the Associated Press.
USATODAY.com - Italian's joy is muted as goalkeeper eyed in match-fixing scandal 2006
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This offered a causal theory of variation and inheritance through a return to a theory resembling Buffon's theory of the organic molecules of the previous century.
Evolution Sloan, Phillip 2008
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"He's (Buffon's) a great person," Italian striker Francesco Totti said about goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon.
USATODAY.com - Italian's joy is muted as goalkeeper eyed in match-fixing scandal 2006
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Viewed in longer historical perspective, Buffon's theory of the internal mold functioned in a way similar to Aristotle's notion of a substantial form, and was likely influenced by Aristotle's discussions.
Evolution Sloan, Phillip 2008
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