Evangelista Torricelli Quotes
We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury.

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I believe in one thing-that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
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I had never heard Ellery laugh before, not out loud. I loved the sound, it filled me up. It tinkled like a magic bird.
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And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!
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I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.
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The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.
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If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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In a crooked mind even the right thing gets crooked.
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Watching children grow up, you learn a lot about life and about being a better person - you learn a lot about what's really important in the world and what isn't.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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While we had other options, we didn't want to lose what's been a relationship since 1990, and we think they're doing an awfully good job.
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That ev'n my buried Ashes such a snare Of Vintage shall fling up into the Air As not a True-believer passing by But shall be overtaken unaware.
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I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.
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The kind of smile that has kept a froggy, dark sort of surprise in its back pocket, and won’t spoil it too soon.
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Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.
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We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury.