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The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

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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
  • Up
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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
  • People
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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
  • Day
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• Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

  

  Mark Twain
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• When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I was a little kid, I have been really into royals and aristocracy. So to make Lord more feminine, I just put an 'e' on the end! Some people think it's religious, but it's not.

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature with dignity while having no reference point for that dignity.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Understand
  • Philosophy

• The atonement is a multifaceted event-Jesus is shown providing surety for our debt to God, mediating the enmity between us and God, and offering Himself as a substitute to suffer God's judgment in our place.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
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• Hope is called the anchor of the soul because it gives stability to the Christian life. But hope is not simply a 'wish' I wish that such-and-such would take place rather, it is that which latches on to the certainty of the promises of the future that God has made.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Life
  • God
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• One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Knowledge
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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
  • People
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• Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Men
  • Lazy
  • Labor

• If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Tree
  • Christmas
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• To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Alone
  • Honor

• The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Time
  • Writer
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• And you must tell the child the legends I told you - as my mother told them to me and her mother to her. You must tell the fairy tales of the old country. You must tell of those not of the earth who live forever in the hearts of the people.

  

  Betty Smith
  • People
  • Live
  • Country

• The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

  

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