James Prescott Joule Quotes

The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle.

James Prescott Joule

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: physicist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 24, 1818 - October 11, 1889

Topics

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TV is so seductive with a great workday. You're going to work and making people laugh, and that's fantastic.

Jillian Bach

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During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

Joe Biden

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The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.

Joey Adams

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.

Anna Jameson

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Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren't.

Amy Waldman

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My daughter loves to do art stuff. As a father, I like to play with her. We break out the big pads of paper and the glitter and all the stuff. She likes to do what she likes to do. I want to do something, too. So I've just started using her same materials - a lot of crayons, a lot of sparkle, charcoal, pencils, markers and glue.

Stone Gossard

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I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't.

Sienna Miller

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In 1993, I joined Reuters as a correspondent in its Cairo bureau.

Mona Eltahawy

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Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.

Luke Ford

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In my day, I, being the first supermodel, I hawked everything.

Janice Dickinson

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By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?

Chauncey Wright

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Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.

Christie Brinkley

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