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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Edmund Burke

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This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Virginia Woolf

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Statistics rarely drive me. Feelings, intuition, and gut instinct do.

Jason Fried

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If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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We are fine whether they film us or not.

Jim Bob

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Volkswagen must continue to attack and make good use of its opportunities.

Martin Winterkorn

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If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.

Theresa May

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Most problems I work on are related to geometric structures on surfaces and their deformations.

Maryam Mirzakhani

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I write a diary every day.

Bojan Krkic

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Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?

William Cullen Bryant

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I love working with newcomers.

Mahesh Bhatt

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Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those situated upon the public lands.

George William Norris

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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.

Victor Borge

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Other countries mimic the u.s., and what they hear has led them to go slow on support and check writing.

Hugh Dugan

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For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.

Henry Norris Russell

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Around 2000 different types of plants are used by humans to make food.

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While using energy from sunlight, plants turn carbon dioxide into food in a process called photosynthesis.

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Bamboo can be a fast growing plant, some types can grow almost a metre (3.28 feet) in just one day!

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Some plants are carnivores, gaining nutrients by eating various small insects and spiders. A well known example of a carnivorous plant is the Venus Flytrap.

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Tree resin which has been fossilized is known as amber, it sometimes contains plant material or small animals that were trapped inside.

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Bronze is a metal alloy made from copper and tin. Copper makes up the larger amount, usually between 80 to 95%.

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Metals are strong and are useful for making tools, buildings, bridges and other structures where strength is important.

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Tungsten has a very high melting point, after carbon it has the second highest melting point of all elements.

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Alkali metals such as sodium, potassium, rubidium, caesium and francium are extremely reactive elements, just putting them in water can result in an explosion! They are carefully stored in oil to prevent this happening.

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Aluminum is a good conductor of heat and is often used to make cooking pots.

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At room temperature, mercury is the only metal that is in liquid form.

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Copper is a good conductor of electricity and is often used for making wires.

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While aluminum is the most common metal found in the Earth's crust, the most common metal found on Earth is iron, mostly because it makes up such a large part of the Earth's core.

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The chemical symbol used for silver is Ag, this comes from the Latin word for silver, argentum.

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Gold is shiny and doesn't corrode, this means it is a great metal for making jewelry.

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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

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