Archimedes Quotes
Any solid lighter than a fluid will, if placed in the fluid, be so far immersed that the weight of the solid will be equal to the weight of the fluid displaced. On floating bodies I, prop 5.Archimedes
Quotes to Explore
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
Larry Brilliant -
I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, and I feel like I can pull ideas from practically anything. You name it - I'll probably like it.
Washed Out -
One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.
Fedor Emelianenko -
The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.
Fanny Kemble -
Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of 'the Troubles.'
Yochai Benkler -
God has taken away the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.
Florence Nightingale
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Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.
Ze Frank -
...next time you rake up those leaves realize you're about to jump into a pile of tree shit. 19.
Ze Frank -
Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.
F. Lee Bailey -
In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.
Dawn Steel -
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain -
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark Twain
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain -
All generalizations are false, including this one.
Mark Twain -
Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
Mark Twain -
We have the best government that money can buy.
Mark Twain -
No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
Mark Twain -
When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
Mark Twain
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Embrace simplicity. Put others first. Desire little.
Lao Tzu -
I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.
Carolyn Wells -
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Mark Twain -
The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
F. L. Lucas -
'Hang on a second-you already have my old laptop. Why do you want my new drives so badly?''Because my contract says I have to write a book, and it's much easier just to steal your life than to make something up.'
Douglas Coupland -
Any solid lighter than a fluid will, if placed in the fluid, be so far immersed that the weight of the solid will be equal to the weight of the fluid displaced. On floating bodies I, prop 5.
Archimedes