Antoine Lavoisier Quotes
In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed.Antoine Lavoisier
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Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.
Edmund Hillary -
'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
Magnus Scheving -
I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
Ted Allen -
There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
Adam Cohen -
I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.
Yogi Berra -
Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.
Tariq Ramadan
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I am always happy to use my song and dance training.
Tamara Tunie -
We don't just live; we make.
Dale Dougherty -
I keep my eyes open. I pay attention to how different types of people express their personal style, how they put their clothes together.
Cam Newton -
When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country, since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.
Angela Davis -
It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.
Anita Loos -
From the cradle to the grave is a school, so if what we call problems are lessons, we see life differently.
Facundo Cabral
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You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to the truth. Another thing you'll find is that the years of illusion aren't those of adolescense, as the grown-ups try to tell us; they're the ones immediately after it, say the middle twenties, the false maturity if you like, when you first get thoroughly embroiled in things and lose your head. Your age, by the way, Jim. That's when you first realize that sex is important to other people besides yourself. A discovery like that can't help knocking you off balance for a time.
Kingsley Amis -
When it comes to our military, what we have to think about is not, you know just budgets, we've got to think about capabilities.
Barack Obama -
The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
Quentin Crisp -
Melinda Gates is a lot of fun to work with. There's some of the people skills that she's better at and cares about more. It'd be a mistake not to think of her as very numerical and interested in the science. I enjoy, if I get ahead of her, say, understanding the immune system, then we can spend a few hours, where I'm going through how amazing it is and interesting, and how that affects our creating new products, so I've always had a partner.
Bill Gates -
...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.
Elizabeth Lesser -
Wherever there is Cuban music there will be the aura of the Buena Vista Social Club, for whom the farewell tour is also the end of an era. It’s something that makes you sad, to a certain point, for those of us who have seen this project grow.
Jesús "Aguaje" Ramos Buena Vista Social Club
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We are bound together by the most powerful of all ties, our fervent love for freedom and independence, which knows no homeland but the human heart.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. -
We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of the Bon Dieu that we cannot read each others minds, twould stop civilization and everybody would take to the woods. In fifty or hundred thousand centuries when mankind have become perfect by evolution then perhaps this sense could be developed with safety to the state.
Thomas A. Edison -
In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed.
Antoine Lavoisier