God gives to every man virtue, temper, and understanding.

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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

Thomas Jefferson

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Well, identity politics is everywhere.

Heather Mac Donald

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I make sure I'm smiling every day, I'm laughing every day, no matter how sore or achy I am or whatever.

Booker T

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I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... But I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.

David Hyde Pierce

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It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. ... Great necessities call out great virtues.

Abigail Adams

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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

Harper Lee

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Success in extreme sports usually involves judging panels scoring athletes based on visual and technical criteria and completion of a 'trick'.

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I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.

Ziggy Marley

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Around 70% of the Earth's surface is covered by oceans.

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We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.

David Gergen

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When I was a kid, I desperately wanted more background information on especially cartoonists.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

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Better blow hard than burn yourself.

Danish Proverb

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I said, 'What is this?' He said, 'Well, that's stress,'.

Trent Lott

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A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

Neale Donald Walsch

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What we're doing is making sure that we have a safe and secure border region from San Diego all the way to Brownsville. And that means manpower, it means technology, it means infrastructure, it means interior enforcement. All, you know, kind of layered in appropriate ways, and making sure, like I said before, the border is safe and secure.

Janet Napolitano

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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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God gives to every man virtue, temper, and understanding.

– William Cooper –

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