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James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that peculiar characteristic of genius - the union of them for practical application.

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• Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Earth
  • Food
  • Environment

• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Light
  • Kitchen
  • Step

• Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Always
  • Breakfast

• The centuries-old habit of privileging the male heir arose because monarchs were supposed to lead their country in battle, and only men were thought strong enough to do so.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Men
  • Country
  • Strong

• People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

• I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Business
  • Man
  • Fool

• I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Hope
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Hope
  • Church
  • Taken

• I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Love
  • Look
  • Falling In Love

• A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • Kind
  • Smile

• And as he, too, seemed disinclined for chit-chat, we stood for some moments like a couple of Trappist monks who have run into each other at the dog races.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Moments
  • Couple
  • Dog

• Fear is the enemy of logic.

  

  Frank Sinatra
  • Fear
  • Enemy
  • Logic

• We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

  

  Alan Perlis
  • Thoughts

• Backbite, v.t. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • Up
  • World
  • War

• The demise of Jeb Bush has been a source of immeasurable pleasure for, well, nearly everyone.

  

  Franklin Foer

• Far from being entirely dependent on exogenous food sources of antioxidants, our cells have their own innate ability to generate antioxidants upon demand.

  

  David Perlmutter
  • Food

• I was very successful at three-day events, point-to-points, Pony Club, and gymkhana. But then I went to college, and because I had really good horses, they weren't going to be left in the field, so they were sold.

  

  Louise Wilson
  • Good
  • College

• We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • American
  • Leadership

• I definitely didn't like our second period. But the positive is that in the third period we regrouped and put on quite a shot.

  

  Bob Hartley
  • Positive
  • Second Period
  • Regrouped

• success in L.A. is completely arbitrary. One day you're the brilliant genius of life, the next day people act like there's a bad smell when you approach. Lots of expensive, late-model cars are offered in the L.A. Times every day by people who have suddenly begun to smell bad. The stakes are just too high for human dignity.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • People
  • Life
  • Bad

• I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • People
  • You
  • My Own

• James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that peculiar characteristic of genius - the union of them for practical application.

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Knowledge
  • Genius
  • Philosopher