#elements

Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three. ↗

— Asa Gray

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If my kids are doing well, then my life is going pretty well. And if my kids aren't doing well, it doesn't matter how the other elements of my life are. It's kind of amazing to have a context like that. This is really wonderful. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

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Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher; but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood. ↗

— Daniel H. Hill

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Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements. ↗

— Harry Houdini

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About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power. ↗

— Sidney Altman

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I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery. ↗

— Luis Barragan

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It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful. ↗

— Michael Bolton

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These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

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There's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there's been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I've always believed in the separation of church and state. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#bed #been #believed #christian #christian right

The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process. ↗

— Hamilton Jordan

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