"A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a horse seventy-nine ounces, solely by the act of respiration. That is, the horse in twenty-four hours burns seventy-nine ounces of charcoal, or carbon, in his organs of respiration to supply his natural warmth in that time ..., not in a free state, but in a state of combination."

-- Michael Faraday

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“I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.”

Source : "'Primary Colors' Author Joe Klein Talks About Political Truth and Fiction". "Crossfire" with Mary Matalin, Bill Press, www.cnn.com. May 2, 2000.
“I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was to be in my room painting my walls and doing weird stuff. That's what I wanted and I got to do what I wanted, so that, to me, is my high school experience.”
“My game is based on improvisation. Often a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If there are too many competitors, even if you're the best it's a lot harder to win.”
“Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.”

Source : Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub
“Relations between the sexes are so complicated that the only way you can tell if members of the set are going together is if they are married. Then, almost certainly, they are not.”
“Ever since the Christmas of 1953, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection; the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving-Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home.”
“Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic sense, see any virtue in the preservation of the cheetah species. They are not working to save the cheetah from extinction like some molecular World Wildlife Fund.”

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