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The surgeon general warned today that saliva causes stomach cancer. But apparently only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time. — George Carlin
But as we move from this period of what many Iraqis regard as perceived occupation, we need to move towards one of partnership. — John Abizaid
It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead it seems more… — Werner Heisenberg
At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first… — Abraham Flexner
From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me… — James Nasmyth
Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so… — Vera Brittain
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and… — Thomas Jefferson
The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was,… — Art Buchwald
Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period… — Charles Evans Hughes
Rich people are committed to enough to do whatever it takes. Period. — T. Harv Eker
Do not great Bodies conserve their heat the longest, their parts heating one another, and may not great dense and fix'd Bodies, when heated beyond… — Isaac Newton
Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much… — John Herschel
Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time. — Charles Francis Richter
The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise at the suitable place and… — Joseph Henry
There was a golden period that I look back upon with great regret, in which the cheapest of experimental animals were medical students. Graduate students… — George Wald
But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during… — Hippocrates
The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical world, that our… — Charles Lyell
Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach… — Adam Sedgwick
On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised… — James Madison
A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of… — Arthur C. Clarke
One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if its plane coincided… — Arthur C. Clarke
[T]he period between four and six in the morning is called the Brahmamuhurta, the Brahmic time, or divine period, and is a very sacred time… — Swami Satchidananda

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