"I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with."

-- Joseph Priestley

#Air Quotes #Oxygen Quotes #Six Quotes

“In this very uncertain time for the media, serious investigative reporting - the expensive, time-consuming stuff - is under enormous pressure at newspapers and other commercial news organizations. Non-profits such as the Center for Public Integrity are taking on this vital work and without them the prospects for investigative reporting would be even more dire. The Center has been properly celebrated for its careful, rigorous work, and to my mind it has now ascended to the status of national treasure.”
“Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.”
“India has the most technically ambitious and innovative nuclear energy program in the world,”

Source : "How Homi Bhabha's vision turned India into a nuclear R&D leader" by Maseeh Rahman, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2011.
“I wasn't taken to anywhere I would have gone if I was alone.”
“Mormons can testify whether I am willing to lay down my life for a Mormon; If it has been demonstrated that I have been willing to die for a Mormon I am bold to declare before heaven that I am just as ready to die for a Presbyterian, a baptist or any other denomination.”
“I imagine that yes is the only living thing.”
“I never had that reputation of being not accessible.”
“What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric self-concept, not actual and effective principles and values. This is what is known in the cliche as the "veneer" of civilization.”

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