"Probably if half a kilogram [of radium] were in a bottle on that table it would kill us all. It would almost certainly destroy our sight and burn our skins to such an extent that we could not survive. The smallest bit placed on one's arm would produce a blister which it would need months to heal."

-- William Crookes

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“The traditional Indian view was to protect our independence; it was therefore quite consistent with the requirements of the time and the feeling of the people. The world may have been misled by Jawaharlal Nehru's own international projection, which in fact had no reality on the ground.”
“If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.”

Source : Alexander Crummell (1969). “Africa and America”, p.376, Рипол Классик
“The funny thing about gold is how quickly it can tarnish.”
“Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.”
“I had a lot of great lakes of ignorance that I was up against, I would write what I knew in almost like islands that were rising up out of the oceans. Then I would take time off and read, sometimes for months, then I would write more of what I knew, and saw what I could see, as much as the story as I could see. And then at a certain point I had to write out what I thought was the plot because it was so hard to keep it all together in my head. And then I started to write in a more linear way.”

Source : "Author Rebecca Miller Talks Male Perspective, Piecing Together a Novel, and Fly Sex in Jacob's Folly". Interview with Kayla Tanenbaum, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2013.
“Look at life all around; everything is growing, everything is moving forward. Therefore I recommend keeping in touch with life and with art.”

Source : Agrippina Vaganova (2012). “Basic Principles of Classical Ballet”, p.15, Courier Corporation
“All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.”
“Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities tomorrow.”

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