"Briefly, in the act of composition, as an instrument there intervenes and is most potent, fire, flaming, fervid, hot; but in the very substance of the compound there intervenes, as an ingredient, as it is commonly called, as a material principle and as a constituent of the whole compound the material and principle of fire, not fire itself. This I was the first to call phlogiston."

-- Georg Ernst Stahl

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“Whoever said "When in Rome, do as the Romans do", has never driven a car there.”
“What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.”
“When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.”
“Use Me is a wonderfully satisfying book.”
“I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical.”
“Life is too short to blend in.”
“Live by faith, not by sight.”
“My personality has become one that tends to focus and move forward, yes. But I was not like that when I was 16 or 23, I think. I was much more uncertain, unconfident and inwards looking. Then via certain techniques I learned from psychotherapy, magick and just life in general I become more focused, confident and happy within myself.”

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