At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life.

Author: John Vane

Author: John Vane

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Don't force to become the top, but loosen up to be the top....(as in don't try hard when people are

Author: Florie Jo Alicer
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

Author: John Berger
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I always see the light at the end of the tunnel before I enter the cave

Author: Stanley Victor Paskavich
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If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with you

Author: Gisele Bundchen
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Jamie reached across and took my right hand in his, his fingers linking with mine, and the silver of

Author: Diana Gabaldon
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I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate t

Author: Oscar Wilde
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One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows.

Author: Unknown
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People think of education as something they can finish.

Author: Isaac Asimov
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We are going to your father," Mrs. Which said. "But where is he?" Meg went over to Mrs. Which and st

Author: Madeleine L'Engle
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Why did the world go on being so beautiful in spite of the ugliness he had experienced? The lake was

Author: William Steig
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If you can't convince you're normal, convince they're weird too.

Author: Sarvesh Jain
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Sometimes people will hear you and be able to change their behavior, but often their behavior has mo

Author: Jillian Michaels
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Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care o

Author: Elizabeth McCracken
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As long as there are millions destitute of the Word of God and knowledge of Jesus Christ, it will be

Author: J.L. Ewen
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I wrenched open the windows. I stood while the cold air poured around my face like dark water, as if

Author: Sue Woolfe
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Kenny rested his hand on my leg, patting it delicately. His thoughts staying just that, thoughts, as

Author: Holly Hood
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Secrets can eat you alive. They break down your soul. It's better to have them in the open

Author: Sara Shepard
Quote #76285

What's the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don't notice your vulnerable state?

Author: Arka Pain
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Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spre

Author: Phyllis Diller
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Many Africans are used to a life where they get up in the morning and don't know what they're going

Author: Mo Ibrahim
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

Author: Walter Bagehot
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I learnt how to make candles when I was a kid. My mom used to make them. Then, when I broke my leg o

Author: Twinkle Khanna
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...a row of tables manned by seated, serious women. Each woman looked like she could be someone's le

Author: Adam Rex
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Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are." He favored Jon with a rueful grin. "Remember this, boy. All

Author: George R.R. Martin
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For me, I think the Lord wanted me to win to put a smile on Chinese people's faces.

Author: Michael Chang
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Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the

Author: Paul Berg
Quote #56894

There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Author: Tennessee Williams
Quote #374192

Impressive, most impressive, worthy lad,Thine Obi-Wan hath taught thee well, and thouHast master'd a

Author: Ian Doescher
Quote #96795

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Author: Albert Camus
Quote #183739

The cold is lonely person's way of feeling alone and death

Author: PureDragonWolf
Quote #189124

Everything will be okay as soon as you are okay with everything. And that is the only time everythin

Author: Michael Singer
Quote #455571

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

Author: Denzel Washington
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I know the power of speech. I don't talk much.

Author: Ljupka Cvetanova
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In life you find pleasure. In life you find pain. Pain and pleasure is an example of the duality in

Author: J.R. Rim
Quote #359066

I committed mistakes many times, fall short, tempted and diverted but able to reconfigure my directi

Author: Nathaniel E. Quimada
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I wish for you the wisdom to realize that forgiveness has nothing to do with an apology.

Author: Steve Maraboli
Quote #437682

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

Author: Lance Bass
Quote #326894

Is there one in particular, Tennyson?” Henry said, ducking out from under her arm. “I could arrange

Author: Laura Anderson Kurk
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He suffered from an unlucky faculty—common to many men, especially Russians—the faculty of seeing an

Author: Leo Tolstoy
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Then suddenly you’re left all alonewith your body that can’t love youand your will that can’t save y

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Quote #139292

A powerful church is capable of transforming our world to God’s kingdom standard

Author: Sunday Adelaja
Quote #486467

Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.

Author: John Chamberlain
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to ea

Author: Daisaku Ikeda
Quote #330367

Focus on beauty, not on feardance with stress to let it clear

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #16643

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is th

Author: Madeleine L'Engle
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We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Remember when you discovered your father owned a book called "How To Disappear and Never Be Found?"

Author: Lena Dunham
Quote #414685

Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the d

Author: Finley Peter Dunne
Quote #7659

Just remember, when you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.

Author: Charles M. Schulz
Quote #237985

Once you learn to celebrate your failures, you are on the way to becoming the real deal!

Author: Harsh Agrawal
Quote #480921

Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its rol

Author: Dieter Rams
Quote #267649

I called Isaac, who cursed life and the universe and God Himself and who said where are the goddamne

Author: John Green
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity

Author: Calvin Coolidge
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He paused in the hallway, sniffing the air. He scowled, sniffed some more. He pressed an intercom bu

Author: Guillermo del Toro
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Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the

Author: Lech Walesa
Quote #108455

There's no crying in the rank book.

Author: William Morton
Quote #386679

You’ve got forever, but that’s no time at all. You’ve got forever; and somehow you can’t do much wit

Author: Jim Thompson
Quote #175915

Work with all your heart, because - I promise - if you show up for your work day after day after day

Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Quote #71250

As believers, we should make the Kingdom of God visible to the people

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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It is the doom of the Christian church to be always distracted with controversy. John Quincy Adams

Author: Paul C. Nagel
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Don't lose the one who fights with you to be with you!

Author: HarryKrishna
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I slashed a wide arc with Riptide and vaporized the entire front row of monsters.Back off!” I yelled

Author: Rick Riordan
Quote #260023

You don't just have people who wake up in the morning and say, "What evil things can I do today, bec

Author: George R.R. Martin
Quote #376938

There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires an

Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Quote #91316

You look at beauty because it is one of the few profound things that humans can do.

Author: Housuke Nojiri
Quote #74843

The best relationships are simple. No lies, no cheating, simply two people that will always be there

Author: Lorri Faye
Quote #314469

As the most powerful people in history, we have climbed to the top of the world food chain, so to sp

Author: Gavin de Becker
Quote #43884

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity the struggle against anguish only produces

Author: Simone Weil
Quote #360627

Sometimes it is best to stand back from conflict and allow other elements in someone's life to do th

Author: Bryant McGill
Quote #193207

How did I get 'IT'? - By crying, begging, yelping! - Any of this helping?

Author: Fakeer Ishavardas
Quote #271551

A flexible mind has a better chance to think differently and take a unique path in the life journey.

Author: Pearl Zhu
Quote #153277

We become what we think; we don’t become what we don’t think about. When we think of a bigger pictur

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in

Author: Charles Dickens
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The trend in modern American culture is toward ever more individualized eating... and with every foo

Author: Margaret Kim Peterson
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My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to rea

Author: Sanjeev Bhaskar
Quote #155076

The world’s greatest classroom has no walls: nature.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
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Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we

Author: Virginia Postrel
Quote #83674

The thought of talking about it made Pueblo's gut ache, but then he thought of everything that Amy h

Author: Dianna Hardy
Quote #309821

What we can see in most societies is the gravity of suffering, tears of sorrow and nightmares of hop

Author: Nilantha Ilangamuwa
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Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, su

Author: Steven Spielberg
Quote #75211

They gave me a thousand reasons to leave you, but I found a thousand and one reasons to be with you.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
Quote #149901

You too know that all my eyes see, all I touch with myself, from any distance, is Diego. The caress

Author: Frida Kahlo
Quote #329924

Today we must begin again. Step by small step, without any more protection than comes from our own b

Author: Eduardo Galeano
Quote #316461

....not today, not tomorrow....

Author: The Walking Dead
Quote #461122

I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all

Author: Zach Johnson
Quote #301829

What is the point of relaying every word when the words become the crime of friendship.

Author: Lorin Morgan-Richards
Quote #461801

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Quote #258213

The only 'if' the Gospel knows is this: 'if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Je

Author: Tullian Tchividjian
Quote #210087

My heart might very well beat itself from my chest," she whispered, "and 'tis difficult to breathe."

Author: Jo Grafford
Quote #73226

Optimism is the spirit of confident soul.

Author: Unknown
Quote #351805

Four of us,' said Morwen. The cats yowled. 'Yes, I know, and of course you're coming, but you can't

Author: Patricia C. Wrede
Quote #389754

If life is unfair with everyone, doesn’t that make life fair

Author: Thabang Gideon Magaola
Quote #60912

When in doubt," Calypso said, "Tater Tots.

Author: Rick Riordan
Quote #334330

Self-preservation is an enemy of love.

Author: Roxanna Aliba Kazibwe
Quote #265204

Talentless and incompetent as I am, there are two things I can do, and two things only: walk, with m

Author: Santōka Taneda
Quote #367338

The daemon wind died down, and the bloated, fungoid moon sank reddeningly in the west.

Author: H.P. Lovecraft
Quote #97146

Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of liv

Author: Robert Henri
Quote #243936

What happens," called out Max, "if you win?""We die anyway, but I become legend" I explained

Author: Philip Palmer
Quote #408716

A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

Author: David Sarnoff