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• If you don’t think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days.

  Kris Carr

  Sweet, Stress, Sadness

  "Celebrating a Decade Thriving With Cancer" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2013.

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• Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.

  Alton Brown

  Flames, Doe, Want

  "Clean Your Grill, And Other Hot Holiday Tips From Food Network's Alton Brown". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. May 26, 2012.

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• We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Self, Humanity, Brain

  Mohsin Hamid (2015). “Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London”, p.62, Penguin

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• Chance plays a powerful role in every life - our brains and personalities are just chemical soup, after all; a few drops here or there matter enormously - but consequences often become more serious as income levels go down.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Powerful, Play, Personality

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• I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office.

  Henry Rollins

  California, Office, Body

  Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. May 12, 2006.

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• Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to deter creatures like us who want to eat them.

  Steven Pinker

  Toxins, Warfare, Want

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• No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception, or by haphazard fluctuations in the chemical soup in the womb or the wiring up of the brain or the expression of the genes themselves.

  Steven Pinker

  Expression, People, Individuality

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• I'm such a control freak, and it's very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me.

  Pink

  Freak, Inhibitions, Hard

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• I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world's energy problems, energy distribution problems. I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.

  Bill Nye

  Energy, Climate, World

  Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November, 2008.

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• A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.

  Elon Musk

  Cells, Numbers, Challenges

  "Extended Interview: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk". Interview with Spencer Michels, www.pbs.org. June 25, 2008.

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• Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver every two months. Your skin replaces itself every six weeks. Every year, 98 percent of the atoms of your body are replaced. This non-stop chemical replacement, metabolism, is a sure sign of life.

  Lynn Margulis

  Self, Order, Years

  Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan (1995). “What is Life?”, p.17, Univ of California Press

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• The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white). Our heart is more like a chemical computer that uses fuzzy logic to analyze information that can't be easily defined in zeros and ones.

  Naveen Jain

  Heart, Black And White, Brain

  "10 Secrets to Entrepreneurial Success" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2011.

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• You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

  David Hockney

  Names, Cameras, Invention

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• No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there's no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.

  Joe Biden

  Children, Men, Innocent Man

  "Military strikes on Syria ‘as early as Thursday,’ US officials say". "NBC News", www.nbcnews.com. August 27, 2013.

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• The most compelling insight of that day was that this awesome recall had been brought about by a fraction of a gram of a white solid, but that in no way whatsoever could it be argued that these memories had been contained within the white solid. Everything I had recognized came from the depths of my memory and my psyche. I understood that our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us, and there are chemicals that can catalyze its availability.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Memories, White, Availability

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• Never try to put all the chemicals in the entire world in your body at the same time.

  Dave Barry

  Trying, World, Body

  Dave Barry (1999). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• When I was a child I accidentally made a chemical bomb. I also ate my grandfather's heart pills. I got my stomach pumped for that one. I got over that so by the time I hit my teens I was kind of mild. Now I'm like an old lady who occasionally parties real hard.

  Brittany Howard

  Children, Real, Party

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• I don't know if many people realize that Dolph Lundgren is a chemical engineer. He's not a dumb blond guy. This guy is smart and he's a martial artist.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Smart, Artist, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• EA: Is it the smoke that smells like vanilla? Audience: Yeah. EA: Yeah, they do that to mask the chemicals that are actually killing you.

  Emilie Autumn

  Smell, Vanilla, Killing

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• The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying on sand.

  Margaret Atwood

  Water, Body, Sand

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We don't have an address," I said, "but we do know where he works." "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Vee asked, eyes brightening briefly through the haze of chemical sedation. "Based on past experience, I hope not.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Past, Thinking

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, People, Drug

  Senate hearing on Porn Rock and the PMRC, 1985.

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• Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas on a busy Saturday night. Seeing two guys who'd just as soon cut each other's throats in their off hours moving in unison with grace and ease can be as uplifting as any chemical stimulant or organized religion.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Beautiful, Uplifting, Moving

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• When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in no danger of mistaking it for a commodity, or a fuel, or a collection of chemical nutrients. No, in the eye of the cook or the gardener ... this food reveals itself for what it is: no mere thing but a web of relationships among a great many living beings, some of them human, some not, but each of them dependent on each other, and all of them ultimately rooted in soil and nourished by sunlight.

  Michael Pollan

  Eye, Cooking, Alive

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• People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Beautiful, Ugly Things, People

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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