#quaint

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Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge.


John Pople


#became #cambridge #during #earlier #i

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.


Donald Cram


#avoid #being #biological #chemistry #few

You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.


Eli Whitney


#approbation #desire #itself #keep #must

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.


Logan P. Smith


#acquaintances #boast #complain #kinds #need

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.


Logan Pearsall Smith


#bosom #friends #growing #growing old #like

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.


James Wolcott


#alike #bunny #candidate #consultant #crowd

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.


John Wooden


#admirers #adversity #becomes #being #easily

The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place.


Kenneth Grahame


#accounts #acquaintance #badger #everybody #felt

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.


Elbert Hubbard


#been #intimately #optimist #person #pessimist

I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village.


Kirsty Gallacher


#grew #i #quaint #up #village