Chemicals Quotes - Page 23

• You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.

  Carl Sagan

  Dollars

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• As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways. These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought to their task no "high-minded orientation," no humility before the vast forces with which they tamper.

  Rachel Carson

  Humility, Men, Delicate Life

  Silent Spring ch. 17 (1962)

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• Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Mind, Etching

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview with David Sheff, genius.com. February 1, 1985.

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• Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. Depression may not even be an illness at all. Often, it can be a normal reaction to abnormal situations. Poverty, unemployment, and the loss of loved ones can make people depressed, and these social and situational causes of depression cannot be changed by drugs.

  Irving Kirsch

  Loss, People, Drug

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• Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy within them is a kind of stored sunlight originally accumulated by ancient plants. Our civilization runs by burning the remains of humble creatures who inhabited the Earth hundreds of millions of years before the first humans came on the scene. Like some ghastly cannibal cult, we subsist on the dead bodies of our ancestors and distant relatives. - Dr. Carl Sagan

  Carl Sagan

  Running, Humble, Long Ago

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium”, p.104, Ballantine Books

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• Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments

  Manly Hall

  Philosopher, Experiments

  Manly Palmer Hall (1926). “The All-seeing Eye”

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• Life is hard, and children have to be told how hard life can be…So they will be sympathetic to others. So they will understand that some people have it harder than they do and that a trip through this world can be a wildly different experience, depending on what chemicals are raging through one’s mind.

  Matthew Quick

  Life, Children, Different Experiences

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel”, p.127, Sarah Crichton Books

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• You don't have to say it out loud. I already know why you like me.' 'You do, huh?' 'Yep.' He wrapped his arms around my waist, pulling me closer. 'So,' I said. 'Tell me' 'It's an animal attraction,' he said simply. 'Totally chemical.' 'Hmm,' I said. 'You could be right.' 'It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me.' 'No?' 'Nope.' His hands were in my hair now, and I was leaning in, not able to totally make out his face, but his voice was clear, close to my ear. 'Just that you do.

  Sarah Dessen

  Animal, Voice, Hair

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• The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen.

  Steven Pinker

  Blow, Oxygen, Knives

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.64, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love my work, my mills, my Metal, my hours at a desk, at a furnace, in a laboratory, in an ore mine, as I love my ability to work, as I love the act of sight and knowledge, as I love the action of my mind when it solves a chemical equation or grasps a sunrise, as I love the things I've made and the things I've felt, as *my* product, as *my* choice, as a shape of my world, as my best mirror, as the wife I've never had, as that which makes all the rest of it possible: as my power to live.

  Ayn Rand

  Love You, Pride, Expression

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2002, Penguin

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• U.N. weapons inspectors found empty chemical warheads in Iraq. So, the question everyone is asking now is how did Sean Penn miss this?

  Jay Leno

  Iraq, Missing, Asking

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• We're always on a tightrope. We're trying to put together people who don't make sense to be together, talking about issues that are sensitive and controversial. We're mixing dangerous chemicals on a nightly basis.

  Bill Maher

  Talking, Issues, People

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• Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Reality, Law, Bending

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• I can only speak from my own experience, and I would say that the depression I experienced feels like a chemical change. When it came over me, when it comes over me, it feels like it's coming over me like a flu.

  Sarah Silverman

  Flu, Speak, Feels

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• For example, the use of chemical weapons [in Syria]- some on the Democrat side have said well, this encourages the North Koreans to use chemical weapons against our troops.

  Rand Paul

  Use, Weapons, Sides

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• I think if Russia is really an honest signatory to the chemical weapons ban, if Syria wants to be, ultimately someone has to be responsible for killing civilians. And that's the hard part out of this.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Russia, Want

  "Rand Paul On Syria: 'I Think There's Evil On Both Sides'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 11, 2013.

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• The idea for me came when I was watching a 60 Minutes segment about resveratrol, the chemical in red wine that lets you live longer, supposedly. And they were like, "Who knows, maybe one day it will help to cure aging." And I thought, "Well, if they did that, we'd all kill each other." And then I laughed, and then I thought about how precisely that would happen. That's how the book came to be.

  Drew Magary

  Book, Wine, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The people that do understand how the brain works and how the chemicals are released in the brain when they feel uncomfortable, uncertain or doubtful they do it anyway. They overcome the biological and neurological releases by understanding what's causing them and moving forward anyway.

  John Assaraf

  Moving, People, Understanding

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• The rage building up, generation after generation, among what has become a permanent underclass in many parts of the world cannot continue. We are desperately undereducating our children. In the United States, we are turning prison-building into the single largest urban industry. These are like toxic chemical factors any one of which could cause a raging fire. God help us if they begin to interact.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Fire, Building Up

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• It usually happens spur of the moment, like when I broke up My Chemical Romance, it was just that day that I decided it was time for them to be done. And people were very upset about it so I have to choose my next victims carefully.

  Mark Hoppus

  People, Romance, Upset

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus On Blink-182's New Album, 'california'". Coup De Main Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

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• I think the dangers of the impact of GMOs on the environment are undebatable. Genetically modified crops are tied to the chemicals sprayed on them.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Thinking, Gmos, Impact

  "Zoe Lister-Jones: The Dangers of GMOs". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It was not the United States who invaded Kuwait; it was Iraq. It was not the United States that went to war with Iran; it was Iraq. It was not the United States that fired chemical weapons at Iran; it was Iraq. And it was not the United States that murdered innocent Iraqi citizens with chemical weapons; it was Iraq.

  Colin Powell

  War, Iran, Kuwait

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Race, Class, Example

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• When you're not putting a bunch of chemicals into everbody, people tend not to fly off the handle.

  Blake Judd

  People, Bunch, Handle

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.

  Paul Bowles

  Men, Hegemony, Sickness

  Paul Bowles (2002). “The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House”

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