Friedrich Bergius Quotes
As early as 1910, Ludwig Landsberg had suggested that I should examine the problem of splitting heavy oils and oil residues into benzines.
Quotes to Explore
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
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The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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There's something so quirky and fun and nerdy about the Tony Awards... We're dorks being silly up there.
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I love Kelly Clarkson's message, and I've heard comparisons to P!nk.
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I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.
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I work in the mornings and in the afternoons I go to the Latin Quarter. It is a long way from the Batignolles district to the Pantheon: Fortunately there is the Metro. It amuses me to see the people squashed together, and among them are some pretty faces which I draw in the evenings, from memory, in my sketchbook.
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If you can unify the public mind saving an iconic species like the tiger, like they did with the panda, that means you have to protect their habitat and everything that they hunt. And that means saving massive, thousands of acres for them to be able to roam and breed. So it's more of a land effort.
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I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.
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Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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As early as 1910, Ludwig Landsberg had suggested that I should examine the problem of splitting heavy oils and oil residues into benzines.
