Humphry Davy Quotes
Mr. Dalton's permanent reputation will rest upon his having discovered a simple principle, universally applicable to the facts of chemistry - in fixing the proportions in which bodies combine, and thus laying the foundation for future labors... his merits in this respect resemble those of Kepler in astronomy.
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With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.
Iain Glen
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I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.
T. Boone Pickens
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
Salman Rushdie
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
Karen O
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
Adam Michnik
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Before 'Gremlins,' I was a normal person, then within two weeks of the movie coming out, I couldn't walk into a store without people turning around and staring. It's exciting and also scary because everyone starts telling you how amazing you are.
Zach Galligan
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I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.
Kate Bush
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I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more.
Omari Hardwick
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I am a Gemini and can adapt to most atmospheres. You get two for the price of one when you are a Gemini.
Karan Johar
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Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.
Ville Valo HIM
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Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.
Patrick Ness
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I think I've definitely found a niche working in comedy, but dramatic films are what brought me here. After I saw 'Titanic' in the theater, I got the bug.
Carly Craig
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I don't necessarily need Hollywood.
Vera Farmiga
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
Karl Kraus
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If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.
Frances McDormand
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I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.
Carly Craig
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It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.
Chuck Berry
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We are extremely pleased with our home here and with the high quality of our associates who have helped build our success. For more than 67 years, Midland has sustained a tradition of excellence and has grown to become a leader in the specialty insurance marketplace over the last 40 years. We are excited to be starting a new chapter in our success, and we look forward to many more years of growth and stability.
B. R. Hayden
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One felt that the mountains are not completed. The builders are still at work. Stones come rolling and jumping from the upper scaffolding and often from the chasms one hears the thundering as the gods of the mountains change their minds.
J. E. H. MacDonald
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It’s past time that people get involved in thinking – now that the computers can take over the field of memory.
Eugene J. Martin
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That is something I'm specifically equipped to discuss - how reputation can affect even your capacity to rent a place. Having good credit is irrelevant in the face of something like getting thrown out of court six years ago. I've really thought this out.
Courtney Love
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The fantasy, power, songfulness, beauty, and humor of the music itself has been not so much overlooked as rendered secondary to the discussion of it by experts. Instead of his reputation’s creating curiosity about his work, his work has been buried by (and beneath) his reputation.
Allen Shawn
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No judicial system could do society's work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.
Benjamin Cardozo
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Mr. Dalton's permanent reputation will rest upon his having discovered a simple principle, universally applicable to the facts of chemistry - in fixing the proportions in which bodies combine, and thus laying the foundation for future labors... his merits in this respect resemble those of Kepler in astronomy.
Humphry Davy