Humphry Davy Quotes
Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.
Humphry Davy
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It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.
Kate Millett
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The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.'
Fernando Torres
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Well, I'm certainly glad that I was nominated for an Oscar. There is certainly a respect that comes with that nod. Also, a compliment that comes with it, too. Not that I really know what I'm doing. In a lot of ways I feel like some child on set, or like a kid that snuck in the back door.
Gabourey Sidibe
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Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
Xun Kuang
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
Bear Grylls
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I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.
Iggy Azalea
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Given that all our lives rest on work that defines us, the business of labor, the wealth that work manifests itself to, I find it odd that not much is written about it. We talk about relationships, damage, adultery, revolution, but we don't talk about work.
Neel Mukherjee
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Gender transition isn't about gender. It's about literally making yourself a better person because you know that's a better you.
Vivienne Ming
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I cannot find any great difference, on the basis of natural reason and equity only, between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.
George Cheyne
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
Nate Diaz
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Most women have learned a great deal about how to set goals for our First Adulthood and how to roll with the punches when we hit a rough passage. But we're less prepared for our Second Adulthood as we approach life after retirement, where there are no fixed entrances or exits, and lots of sand into which it is easy to bury our heads.
Gail Sheehy
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Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.
Humphry Davy
