Phlogisticated Quotes & Sayings

Saving is a great habit but without investing and tracking, it just sleeps — Manoj Arora

Death was such a mystery. The complete disappearance of something as complex and miraculous as a living, breathing human being had always been beyond her comprehension. — G.A. McKevett

But there are no institutions on earth which enable each separate person to have a hand in the exercise of Power, for Power is command, and everyone cannot command. Sovereignty of the people is, therefore, nothing but a fiction, and one which must in the long run prove destructive of individual liberties. — Bertrand De Jouvenel

Reality is infinite and we are finite and so there is a necessary mismatch between our knowledge of the world and the world itself. — Rebecca Goldstein

When playing against big teams, it's the small details that count. — Luis Garcia

A small bubble of air remained unabsorbed ... if there is any part of the phlogisticated air [nitrogen] of our atmosphere which differs from the rest, and cannot be reduced to nitrous acid, we may safely conclude that it is not more than 1/120 part of the whole.
[Cavendish did not realize the significance of the remaining small bubble. Not until a century later were the air's Noble Gases appreciated.] — Henry Cavendish

I could have listed maybe fifty possible reactions without coming close to the one I got. Her eyes dulled and her narrow nostrils flared wide and her mouth fell into sickness. She lost her posture and stood in an ugly way. — John D. MacDonald

Cured?" Goss said. "Would you cure a singer of his voice? — Ursula K. Le Guin

Fall in love with a dog's bum,
And thou'll think it pretty as a plum. — Marcel Proust

The success of the therapy relies on three main factors: the appropriate selection of patients, the accurate placement of the DBS lead in the sensorimotor regions of the target nuclei, and optimal choice of electrical parameters for stimulation. — William J. Marks Jr.