Antoine Lavoisier Quotes
Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grainShrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.
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Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.
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Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.
