Diffused Quotes
47 quotes by 45 authors
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I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it.
— Jay London
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The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.
— Dmitri Mendeleev
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[1.] And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation, strongly elastick, & in a…
— Isaac Newton
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Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will not…
— Poul Anderson
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That good diffused may more abundant grow.
— William Cowper
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Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an…
— Adrienne Rich
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No longer let thy breathing only act in concert with the air which surrounds thee, but let thy intelligence also now be in harmony with…
— Marcus Aurelius
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The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
— Sam Houston
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In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.
— Hu Shih
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If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as…
— Daniel Webster
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On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain,…
— Jules Verne
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The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Guilt -- if there was any guilt -- spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . . . Perhaps at some point in…
— Philip K. Dick
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No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when…
— Samuel Adams
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To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the…
— Mark Twain
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Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him;…
— Jane Austen
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Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the Goddam sense of…
— Luke Rhinehart
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The rage that had expolded inside me diffused. I didn't know where it had come from. I had a short temper and often acted impulsively,but…
— Richelle Mead
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His eyes are blue, and blue eyes up close are a celestial phenomenon: nebulae as seen through telescopes, the light of unnamed stars diffused through…
— Laini Taylor
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