Humphry Davy Quotes
But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil war of the worst description: we should rather, through the instrumentality of the men of science soften the asperities of national hostility. Davy's remarks to Thomas Poole on accepting Napoleon's prize for the best experiment on Galvanism.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
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When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.
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I like the language in Proust but not the context.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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Women are made to be loved, not understood.
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I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.
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Senator McCain is Israel's most unconditional ally in Mossad's machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.
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I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.
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I believe Saudi Arabia is the only Muslim country in which churches are prohibited.
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I am not a fashionista, and I don't dress up. Usually if I'm at home, where I am now, I'm wearing a robe.
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I'm comfortable in the locker room situation, so whatever.
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'Women's intuition' wasn't intuition at all, it was heightened observation, unconscious registration of subtle clues.
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Is anything more certain than that in all those vast times and spaces, if I were allowed to search them, I should nowhere find her face, her voice, her touch? She died. She is dead. Is the word so difficult to learn?
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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself must work out his own salvation.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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… after you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of Earth? … What moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet?
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But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil war of the worst description: we should rather, through the instrumentality of the men of science soften the asperities of national hostility. Davy's remarks to Thomas Poole on accepting Napoleon's prize for the best experiment on Galvanism.
