#weigh

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind. ↗

— John Lyly

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At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#any #boot #bruised #could #deal

I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community. ↗

— John Major

#community #european #i #punch #want

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#ant #cope #crushes #endowed #greater

I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#because #hate #i #implies #overweight

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#american #american men #american women #boring #gain

But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, it's pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#best #blessed #cool #exhausting #guys

Elements which are similar as regards their chemical properties have atomic weights which are either of nearly the same value (eg. Pt, Ir, Os) or which increase regularly (eg. K, Ru, Cs). ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#chemical #either #elements #increase #nearly

The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#apparent #arranged #atomic #elements #exhibit

We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65 and 75. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

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