The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.

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The character of Samantha Jones proved that women over the age of 40 could be magnificently sexy and attractive to men of all ages.

Claudia Winkleman

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Stories come to me in mysterious ways, more like dreams than reasoned creations.

Anthony Browne

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I can't be around someone who is negative because I am such a positive person. If you are mean, then we don't speak.

Trevor Jackson

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I spent my life playing heroes because I looked like one.

Roger Moore

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Guilt the gift that keeps on giving.

Erma Bombeck

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I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.

Eddie Murphy

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YouTube's algorithm doesn't know what's going on in the world.

Burnie Burns

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I model irregular clothing.

Jay London

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The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I originally wrote 'The Martian' as a free serial novel, posting one chapter at a time to my website.

Andy Weir

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The only living things capable of powered flight are insects, birds and bats.

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In football, you have to be strong in the head. The mentality is important, and I do have this quality so I can keep going.

Marouane Fellaini

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I like giving the audience a lot of stuff to look at, and rewards for repeated viewings and paying attention.

Rich Moore

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When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.

Derrick Rose

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Proverbs

Life has many ups and downs.

Arab Proverb

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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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The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.

– Christopher Hitchens –

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