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“I would... establish the conviction that Chemistry, as an independent science, offers one of the most powerful means towards the attainment of a higher mental cultivation; that the study of Chemistry is profitable, not only inasmuch as it promotes the material interests of mankind, but also because it furnishes us with insight into those wonders of creation which immediately surround us, and with which our existence, life, and development, are most closely connected.”
Source : David M. Knight, Justus von Liebig (1998). “The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Familiar letters on chemistry”, p.1, Taylor & Francis
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“I had three sessions of chemotherapy so it was really tough, it was hard to go through it. But while I was going through my treatment, I was always motivated that I was going to come back and play for India. I think that's what kept me going and got me through.”
Source : "Yuvraj Singh: The World Cup hero who bounced back from cancer" by Matthew Knight, Olivia Yasukawa, edition.cnn.com. January 23, 2015.
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“I was definitely nervous turning up on my first day to shoot with Woody Allen.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public and said the sex had no orators. It denied her the schools, and said the sex had no genius. It robbed her of every vestige of responsibility, and then called her weak. It taught her that every pleasure must come as a favor from men and when, to gain it, she decked herself in paint and fine feathers, as she had been taught to do, it called her vain.”
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“I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.”
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“The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed”
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“In fact, many of the quotes in my books are quotes which were translated from English and that I read already translated into Spanish. I'm not really concerned with what the original version in English was, because the important thing for me is that I received them already translated, and they've influenced my original worldview as translations, not as original quotations.”
Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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“It's not your body, it's not your choice, because you got that from God. He gave that to you.”
Source : "An Interview with Norma McCorvey, the 'Roe' of Roe vs. Wade". Interview with Fr. Frank Pavone, www.priestsforlife.org. January 1, 1997.