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• The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now it is a pill; no one except a few precise scientists define it as anything else. Once the vitamin became a pill, it became real according to the precepts of American Cartesianism: I swallow it, therefore it is.

  Florence King

  Real, Health, Long Ago

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• La decadencia de la decencia en la era moderna, la rebelión contra la ley y la buena fe, el tratamiento de los seres humanos como cosas, como meros instrumentos del poder y la ambición, es sin duda consecuencia de la decadencia de la creencia en el hombre como algo más que un animal animado por reflejos y reacciones químicas muy condicionadas. Porque, a menos que el hombre sea algo más que eso, no tiene derechos que nadie esté obligado a respetar, y no hay limitaciones a su conducta que esté obligado a obedecer.

  Walter Lippmann

  Ambición, Hombres, Animal

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). "The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy", p.129, Harvard University Press.

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• I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So little, really, is ordinary, but to remember this I need the brain chemical of painting and film and reading I had a thrummy doomed oracular feeling when I wrote blackened baby teeth into my little blind boy story: I saw teeth and in an instant they were becoming something else. They were buckshot. They were food. They were tiny flightless corvids.

  Noy Holland

  Baby, Art, Reading

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• Empathy is the poor man's cocaine, and love is just a chemical by any other name

  Eyedea

  Amor Es, Hombres, Nombres

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• Es una ironía de la historia de la medicina que, aunque los trabajos posteriores de Freud lo convertirían en el progenitor de la psicoterapia psicodinámica moderna, que generalmente se basa en la idea de que la enfermedad mental surge de conflictos psicológicos inconscientes, sus trabajos sobre la cocaína lo convierten en uno de los padres de la psiquiatría biológica, que se rige por la noción de que el malestar mental está causado en parte por un mal funcionamiento físico o químico que puede tratarse con fármacos.

  Scott Stossel

  Father, Ideas, Drug

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• The evidence about Saddam having actual biological and chemical weapons, as opposed to the capability to develop them, has turned out to be wrong. I acknowledge that and accept it. I simply point out, such evidence was agreed by the whole international community, not least because Saddam had used such weapons against his own people and neighbouring countries.

  Tony Blair

  Country, Iraq, People

  "Blair's speech" by Andrew Sparrow, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 29, 2004.

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• Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, Fields, Doe

  "President: Iraqi Regime Danger to America is 'Grave and Growing'". Radio Address, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 5, 2002.

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• Whereas Iraq has consistently breached its cease-fire agreement between Iraq and the United States, entered into on March 3, 1991, by failing to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction program, and refusing to permit monitoring and verification by United Nations inspections; Whereas Iraq has developed weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological capabilities, and has made positive progress toward developing nuclear weapons capabilities

  Tom Harkin

  Agreement, Iraq, Fire

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• Irak representa una amenaza continua para la seguridad nacional de Estados Unidos y para la paz y la seguridad internacionales en la región del Golfo Pérsico, y sigue incumpliendo de forma material e inaceptable sus obligaciones internacionales al, entre otras cosas, seguir poseyendo y desarrollando una importante capacidad de armamento químico y biológico, buscar activamente una capacidad de armamento nuclear y apoyar y dar cobijo a organizaciones terroristas.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wmd, Organization, Iraq

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• In arranging the bodies in order of their electrical nature, there is formed an electro-chemical system which, in my opinion, is more fit than any other to give an idea of chemistry.

  Jons Jacob Berzelius

  Order, Ideas, Giving

  "Essai sur le théorie des proportions chimiques" by Jons Jacob Berzelius (1819) translated in Henry M. Leicester and Herbert S. Klickstein "A Source Book in Chemistry 1400-1900" (p. 260), 1952.

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• Por separado, cada [personaje] es una víctima sin importancia. Pero cuando los juntas, se convierten en un arma peligrosa. Jeanne es la vocal y Sophie la consonante. Los psicólogos conocen bien este fenómeno. Cada individuo es inofensivo, pero juntos crean una reacción química explosiva. Es como Bonnie y Clyde, como Thelma y Louise.

  Claude Chabrol

  Character, Together, Sophie

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• ¿Quiénes somos en realidad? ¿Combinaciones de sustancias químicas comunes que realizan acciones mecánicas durante unos años antes de volver a desintegrarse en los componentes originales? ¿Nuevas almas frescas, extraídas al azar para algún armario celestial donde Dios guarda un suministro interminable? ¿O la misma alma, inmortal y eterna, renovada y reutilizada a través de vidas interminables, por esa ahorrativa ama de llaves? En Su sabiduría y benevolencia, Ella borra las pizarras de la memoria, como parte del proceso de limpieza, porque si pudiéramos recordar todas las cosas que hemos experimentado en vidas anteriores, podríamos oponernos a arriesgarnos de nuevo.

  Barbara Mertz

  Recuerdos, Años, Alma

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• A convention on the comprehensive ban of nuclear weapons should be negotiated. Since biological and chemical weapons have been prohibited, there is no reason why nuclear weapons, which are more destructive, should not be comprehensively banned and thoroughly destroyed. All it takes to reach this objective is strong political will.

  Jiang Zemin

  Strong, Political Will, Nuclear

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• La narración más convincente, expresada en frases con las que no tengo ninguna reacción química, o una adversa, me deja frío.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Narrative, Cold, Chemical Reactions

  "Las frases de mi vida". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. 17 de marzo de 2012.

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• Entiéndelo: eres único. Tus rasgos de carácter son una especie de mezcla química que nunca se repetirá en la historia. Hay ideas únicas en ti, un ritmo y una perspectiva específicos que son tus puntos fuertes, no tus debilidades. No debes tener miedo de tu singularidad y cada vez debe importarte menos lo que la gente piense de ti.

  Robert Greene

  Carácter, Único, Pensamiento

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• The Germans sell chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq. The wounded are then sent to Germany to be treated. Veritable human guinea pigs.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Pigs, Iran, Iraq

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• Que quede claro: no me hago ilusiones sobre Sadam Husein. Es un hombre brutal. Un hombre despiadado. Un hombre que masacra a su propio pueblo para asegurar su propio poder. Ha desafiado repetidamente las resoluciones de la ONU, ha frustrado a los equipos de inspección de la ONU, ha desarrollado armas químicas y biológicas y ha codiciado la capacidad nuclear. Es un mal tipo. El mundo, y el pueblo iraquí, estarían mejor sin él.

  Barack Obama

  Team, Men, Iraq

  Speech Opposing the War in Iraq at Federal Plaza, delivered 2 October 2002, Chicago, Illinois

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• We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq. But I have to accept, as the months have passed, it seems increasingly clear that at the time of invasion, Saddam did not have stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons ready to deploy.

  Tony Blair

  Iraq, Invasion, Weapons

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• The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be perfectly isolated from the rest of the world. Nevertheless it completes the mathematician's "blank form of a universe" without which his investigations are impossible. It enables him to introduce into his geometrical space, not only masses and configurations, but also physical structure and chemical composition. Just as Newton first conclusively showed that this is a world of masses, so Willard Gibbs first revealed it as a world of systems.

  Lawrence Joseph Henderson

  Independent, Science, Space

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• The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be said to have been applied to the practical purposes of life, until the same powerful genius [Davy] which detected the principle, applied it, by a singular felicity of reasoning, to arrest the corrosion of the copper-sheathing of vessels. ... this was regarded as by Laplace as the greatest of Sir Humphry's discoveries.

  Charles Babbage

  Powerful, Science, Discovery

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• Next time you see an unblemished expanse of grass, think about the chemicals that probably got dumped in your vicinity to create it. Are you grateful for that?

  Robert Wright

  Nature, Grateful, Thinking

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• Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.

  Peter Agre

  Dad, College, Oxford

  "Nobel Laureate Peter Agre: From Aquaporins to Lutefisk". Interview with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. July 20, 2011.

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• A la mayoría de los estadounidenses les horrorizará que el presidente Obama ponga en peligro nuestra capacidad de disuasión frente a ataques químicos y biológicos contra este país. Nuestros aliados también estarán preocupados por su aspiración de eliminar las armas nucleares tácticas estadounidenses en Europa.

  Frank Gaffney

  País, Europa, Presidente

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• First of all, I don't think that America is truly prepared for a biological or a chemical attack. However, we are moving in the right direction.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Moverse, Pensar, América

  "Rep. Saxby Chambliss: Anti-terrorism measures in the U.S". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2001.

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• The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.

  Salvatore J. Cordileone

  Brain, Stewardship, Illegal

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