"The first serious applications were in triterpenoid chemistry."

-- Derek Barton

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“Stones of judgment, discouragement or doubt may be thrown at you. You can't stop them, but you can make the choice to keep your walls up and not let them affect you.”
“Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.”

Source : Source: poems.com
“His enemies said he [Robert Kennedy] was consumed with selfish ambition, a ruthless opportunist exploiting his brother's legend. But he was too passionate and too vulnerable ever to be the cool and confident operator his brother was.”

Source : Jack Newfield (1969). “Robert Kennedy: a memoir”
“The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as possible, to sell the product as high as possible, and to move the wealth into fewer and fewer hands.”
“I don't fold under pressure, great athletes perform better under pressure, so put pressure on me.”
“O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!”
“Life is like a simile.”
“I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the same thing.”

Source : "Mac Barnett & Jory John Talk with Roger". Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.

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