#compound

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Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans.


Stephen Jay Gould


#ago #arose #because #began #billion

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.


Robert Peel


#feeling #folly #newspaper #obstinacy #opinion

Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency.


Chris Chocola


#believe #compound #congress #creating #disaster

In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he had lived for the last half-decade of his life; the first, and only, journalist to do so.


Peter L. Bergen


#city #compound #enter #february #first

When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers.


Humphry Davy


#compound #element #elements #fixed #form

Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.


Hugh Miller


#certainly #compound #everywhere #fallen #fiend

Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.


Marc Andreessen


#bigger #compounds #each #ever #front

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.


Will Eisner


#always #art #art form #been #belief

The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties.


Michael Medved


#common #compounding #deny #difficulties #dimension

And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are compounded Cities, Countries, Nations, etc.


Dudley North


#cities #compounded #countries #etc #families