“ We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
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“ I'm allergic to chemicals in food so I eat only organic foods. I've never missed a show so it must be doing something. ”
- Carol Channing- Copy
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“ When we decode a cookbook, every one of us is a practicing chemist. Cooking is really the oldest, most basic application of physical and chemical forces to natural materials. ”
- Arthur E. Grosser- Copy
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“ 'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Every day Saddam remains in power with chemical weapons, biological weapons, and the development of nuclear weapons is a day of danger for the United States. ”
- Joseph Lieberman- Copy
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“ The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. ”
- Carl Jung- Copy
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“ Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? ”
- Neil Gaiman- Copy
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“ The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed. ”
- Carl Gustav Jung- Copy
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“ Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
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“ Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell. ”
- Charles Kingsley- Copy
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“ When I discovered lysergic acid amides in ololiuqui, I realized that LSD is really just a small chemical modification of a very old sacred drug of Mexico. LSD belongs, therefore, by its chemical structure and by its activity into the group of the magic plants of Mesoameri. ”
- Albert Hofmann- Copy
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“ It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity. ”
- Albert Hofmann- Copy
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“ Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face. ”
- Madeleine K. Albright- Copy
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“ If the Bush Administration cannot ensure Americans that they will be safe from the flu, how will they protect our country against a possible bio-terror or chemical attack? The American people deserve better. ”
- Jon Corzine- Copy
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“ The CIA's and the Defense Department's long denial of the possibility of chemical weapons exposure was a great disservice to thousands of Gulf War veterans whose tour of duty in the Persian Gulf has adversely affected their health. ”
- Terry Everett- Copy
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“ While the distance between the United States and Iraq is great, Saddam Hussein's ability to use his chemical and biological weapons against us is not constrained by geography - it can be accomplished in a number of different ways - which is what makes this threat so real and persuasive. ”
- Senator Dianne Feinstein- Copy
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“ I also did electrical and chemistry experiments at that time. At first, when asked in school to prepare an essay about my career, I prepared one about a career as an electrical engineer like my father. Later, when I actually entered Carnegie Tech. in Pittsburgh, I entered as a student with the major of chemical engineering. ”
- John Nash- Copy
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“ We are finding new mass graves every day. Saddam Hussein committed a crime by using chemical weapons… He waged two wars on Iran and Kuwait. He murdered and executed hundreds and hundreds of Iraqis. ”
- Jalal Talabani- Copy
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“ The sad think about the Sixties was the weak-mindedness of the so-called radicals and the way that they managed to get co-opted. I think one of the things that helped that happen was LSD. It's the only chemical known to mankind that will covert a hippy to a yuppie. ”
- Frank Zappa- Copy
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“ FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the systems of punctuation in use by the various literary nations depended originally upon the social habits and general diet of the flies infesting the several countries. These creatures, which have always been distinguished for a neighborly and companionable familiarity with authors, liberally or niggardly embellish the manuscripts in process of growth under the pen, according to their bodily habit, bringing out the sense of the work by a species of interpretation superior to, and independent of, the writer's powers… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ We are totally opposed to abortion under any circumstances. We are also opposed to abortifacient drugs and chemicals like the Pill and the IUD, and we are also opposed to all forms of birth control with the exception of natural family planning. ”
- Judie Brown- Copy
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“ A self-balancing, 28-jointed adaptor-based biped; an electro-chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62,000 miles of capillaries… ”
- R. Buckminster Fuller- Copy
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“ Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas … with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether. ”
- Hunter S. Thompson- Copy
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“ Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry… If mathematical analysis should ever had prominent place in chemistry - an aberration, which is happily almost impossible - it would be a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science. ”
- Auguste Comte- Copy
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“ A drug is neither moral nor immoral — it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole. ”
- Frank Zappa- Copy
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“ So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky. ”
- Russell Wayne Baker- Copy
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“ The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions… ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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