Chemically Defined Quotes & Sayings

Each existence depends on something else ... there are no separate individual existences. There are just many names for one existence. — Shunryu Suzuki

My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance. — William S. Burroughs

Know and believe in yourself and what others think won't disturb you. — William Feather

You've no doubt heard the saying 'knowledge is power.' I disagree. Knowledge is only powerful if you use it, if you act on it. — Brian Moran

The children form his human shield. There's — Suzanne Collins

He looked out of the window to think, because without a window he couldn't think. Or maybe it was the other way around: When there was a window, he automatically started to think. Then he wrote, "When I grow up, I am going to be happy. — Guus Kuijer

In the four decades after World War II, manufacturing jobs paid more than other jobs for given skills. But that is much less true today. Increased international competition has forced American manufacturers to reduce costs. As a result, the pay premium for low-skilled workers in manufacturing is smaller than it once was. — Christina Romer

Here's a memonic device that I feel teaches how we can properly cope with failure. Forget about your failures; don't dwell on past mistakes Anticipate failure; realize that we all make mistakes. Intensity in everything you do; never be a failure for lack of effort. Learn from your mistakes; don't repeat previous errors. Understand why you failed; diagnose your mistakes so as to not repeat them. Respond, don't react to errors; responding corrects mistakes while reacting magnifies them. Elevate your self-concept. It's OK to fail, everyone does; now how are you going to deal with the failure — Steve Largent

I understand toilets were not yet invented when you were born, but is it really so hard to put the seat down? — Christy Gissendaner

Had I been given The [Pentagon] Papers themselves that early, I would probably have become a prisoner of them - as it was, I had a good sense of the bureaucratic history [in them] as related by an expert, but I was also free to do several hundred interviews, not merely to flesh out the bureaucratic history, but to balance the pure paper history with a human history, and to relate secret decisions as they were not always set down on paper. — David Halberstam

Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices. — Henry Ward Beecher

I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller. — Merton Miller