"Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?"

-- Evangelista Torricelli

#Air Quotes #Weight Quotes #Mercury Quotes

“I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical, it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“If you think your life sucks, it probably does. Do something about it.”
“Hey, are you a boy or a â€” never mind, can I have a push on the swing?â€ And some day, yâ€™all, when we grow up, itâ€™s all gonna be that simple.”
“2Pac wrote about life threatening situations after being shot so often, it made it seem like he was obsessed with it. He even wrote music and material that he left behind after he died that made reference to him dying already. I think the significance in that ties back to us knowing that that's our fate.”
“It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.”
“Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.”
“We must convince each generation that they are transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not free to doom generations yet unborn. They are not at liberty to erase humanity's past nor dim its future.”

Source : Bernard Lown's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1985.
“No. Don't you do this to us.”

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