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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished. — Jean de la Bruyere
We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part… — Michel de Montaigne
The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed. — Confucius
The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a… — James Prescott Joule
Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth. — Jules Verne
Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided… — James Madison
We have always underestimated the cell...The entire cell can be viewed as a factory that contains an elaborate network of interlocking assembly lines, each of… — Bruce Alberts
The things that most deserve our gratitude we just take for granted. Without air we cannot live for more than a minute or two. Everyday… — Sri Chinmoy
The brain, or cerebrum, is a material entity located inside the skull which may be inspected, touched, weighed, and measured. It is composed of chemicals,… — Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado
Now I have demonstrated, that the convolutions of the brain are nothing but the peripheric expansion of the bundles of which it is composed; consequently… — Franz Joseph Gall
The most obvious feature of the brain is that it is not homogeneous, but composed of different regions. There are no intrinsic moving parts, no… — Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield
The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is composed… — David H. Hubel
The other would be the real one, composed entirely of young enthusiasts in camouflage uniforms, who would not be put on display, but from whom… — Jean Larteguy
It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another. — Henry de Montherlant
Just as the spectroscope opened up a new astronomy by enabling the astronomer to determine some of the constituents of which distant stars are composed,… — Richard Dixon Oldham
When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several parts, the whole… — James Hutton
But since the brain, as well as the cerebellum, is composed of many parts, variously figured, it is possible, that nature, which never works in… — Georg Prochaska
If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I… — Niccolo Paganini
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way. — Caroline Gordon

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