"There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is connected with human civilization."

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Source : George Fownes (1845). “Elementary Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical”, p.224

George Fownes

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“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.”
“Maybe it's important to open up I people- people who are right there with you, not some thousand miles away in another universe. Or maybe it's something else. Maybe I should just settle for not knowing. Maybe it's just good to know that you're not the only one who doesn't know.”
“At the outset, it is only liking, not understanding, that matters. Gaps in understanding ... are not only important, they are perhaps even welcome, like clearings in the woods, the better to allow the heart's rays to stream out without obstacle. The unlit shadows should remain obscure, which is the very condition of enchantment.”
“I just like the child's nightmares and therapy, once an experience has found the light of day I'm no longer under its spell, I'm free to tell it. I hope in telling honestly I can in some way help other people to do so also.”

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“I'm one of the people who believe the great lines come from either Western or bluegrass music.”
“In the Wu Tzu it says: 'He who would save his life shall lose it, and he who would give up his life shall save it.'”
“Divorce doesn't fit my cookie-cutter image.”
“When you're breastfeeding, you don't get juicy down there. The juice isn't loose.”

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