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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Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.
Ford Frick
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I just think that there is something that keeps us together, to keep doing what we're doing. I can't really put my finger on it other than each record is like a little snapshot of my life at that particular moment, the way I play, the way I sound, the way I wrote, the way I sing, I can hear it.
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I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.
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I was a Skynyrd fan all along. But I was also the brother of the lead singer who passed on. I just didn't want to do anything that would harm the band's name.
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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.
