"Since it is necessary for specific ideas to have definite and consequently as far as possible selected terms, I have proposed to call substances of similar composition and dissimilar properties isomeric, from the Greek ίσομερης (composed of equal parts)."

-- Jons Jacob Berzelius

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“I've also learned that you don't always get to pick the people with whom you travel the journey. You sometimes may think you do, but don't be deceived. And the corollary of that - and this was my real lesson - is that you start to realize that you can love even the people you don't like and must love and help everyone.”

Source : Lama Surya Das (2009). “Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment”, p.157, Harmony
“There is no positive law: Many things are bad by that, which otherwise were not.”
“A wife is not a man's shadow or subordinate, but his other self, his "helper," in a sense which no other creature on earth can be.”

Source : Joseph Herman Hertz (1936). “Hamishah Humshe Torah Im Ha-Hafterot: Genesis”
“A religion without the Holy Ghost, though it had all the ordinances and all the doctrines of the New Testament, would certainly not be Christianity.”
“I did theatre when I was nine, I think. Nine and ten, and that was just the beginning of my whole involvement in acting, my whole interest. I don't really remember it that well. But it was really fun. I mean, it was exciting just to be on stage in front of an audience. It gives you a different kind of rush.”
“Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.”

Source : Song: Once in a Blue Moon, 2003
“The Socialist Party will no longer be running a candidate for president. The Democratic Party is leading this country to Socialism much faster than we could ever hope to.”
“The British government is a murder machine.”

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