"On the 1st of August, 1774, I endeavoured to extract air from mercurius calcinates per se [mercury oxide]; and I presently found that, by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. â€¦ I admitted water to it [the extracted air], and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what surprized me more than I can well express, was, that a candle burned in this air with a remarkably vigorous flameâ€¦ I was utterly at a loss how to account for it."

-- J. B. Priestley

#Mean Quotes #Loss Quotes #Air Quotes

“When I was a dancer, I felt this great sense of knowing my body and being in my body, and I think it's really easy as women to lose that and not really be one and loving it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The physical life of an individual person is limited, but the life of the masses united as an independent social-political organism is immortal.... Only when an individual becomes a member of this community can he acquire the immortal social-political life.”

Source : "Theory of the Immortal Social-Political Body". 1986.
“Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence.”
“You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.”
“No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?”
“No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it”

Source : "Exclusive! Interview With Slayer Vocalist/ Bassist Tom Araya". Interview with Brian Davis, www.knac.com. January 4, 2005.
“Too many times, people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobody's heard the story from the basement.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.”

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