Euripides Quotes
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
Euripides
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Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.
Victor Grignard
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The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.
Aaron Swartz
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I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.
Zhang Yimou
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I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.
Ursula Burns
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The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.
Randy Schekman
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Every day I try to push the boundaries, and it's paid off.
Adam Peaty
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But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.
Nicki Minaj
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When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in a process of writing. It's the same thing with reading - you lose yourself when you read as well. When I was younger I used literature that way, it was just escapism, a tool to run away from things.
Karl Ove Knausgard
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My agency in promoting the passage of the National Bank Act was the greatest financial mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly, which affects every interest in the country. It should be repealed, but before that can be accomplished, the people will be arrayed on one side and the banks on the other, in a contest such as we have never before seen in this country.
Salmon Portland Chase
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Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us.
Emma Orczy
