"It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion."

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Source : Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain), Society for Psychical Research (London, England), Henry Sidgwick, Balfour Stewart, Arthur James Balfour Balfour (Earl of) (1912). “Presidential Addresses to the Society for Psychical Research, 1882-1911”

William Crookes

#Fundamentals Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Inquiry Quotes

“I think I'm more prolific in the songwriting.”
“Freedom isn't free at all, that it comes with the highest of costs. The cost of blood.”

Source : "Fictional character: Queen Gorgo". "300", www.imdb.com. 2006.
“Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning.”

Source : "Wall Street Has a Gambling Problem" by Sen. Maria Cantwell, www.huffingtonpost.com.
“On Bill Clinton: I have a simple question: Who's the last President to give you a balanced budget?”
“Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily, leisurely, and aperiodic; it is the inner cadence that brings fruit to ripeness, a woman to childbirth, a man to change the direction of his life.”
“I'm very happy where 3-D is going, which is that it's becoming a choice - and thankfully, most people are still choosing 2-D.”
“On the long dusty ribbon of the long city street, The pageant of life is passing me on multitudinous feet, With a word here of the hills, and a song there of the sea And-the great movement changes-the pageant passes me.”
“Love...is the immovability of truth.”

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