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Adrienne Mayor Quotes

I've always been interested in oral traditions and mythological stories and legends from antiquity that have to do with nature, attempts to explain mysterious or puzzling, or very striking phenomena from nature. Things that people observed or heard about in nature.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: 1946

Topics

Nature People Legends Mysterious

Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.

Just Because Washington Fail Kids

When I went to Vietnam in 1971 with Bob Hope, we went to Da Nang, which was a Marine base. I just have to say it was one of the biggest thrills I have ever had.

Hope Say Vietnam Just Bob Ever

We still don't know what about 96 per cent of the universe is made of. It is dark matter and dark energy, but we have no idea what it is.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Energy Universe Dark Know Matter

I suppose books are my real passion in life.

Life Passion Real Books Suppose

My mission in life is to try and get to a point where my insides world is not affected by the outside world.

Life World Mission Try Outside Get

I like Mexico a lot.

Mexico Like Lot

Life is short, and, once somebody is gone, they're gone.

Roscoe Mitchell

Life Life Is Short Short Gone Once

A jurist can obey the letter of the law and violate its spirit, or it can follow the spirit of the law and violate the letter of the law. I want someone who can reconcile the letter and the spirit of the law without partisan leanings.

Law Someone Want Spirit Follow Obey

What I try to do, what I attempt to do, is say things that I mean at least at an emotional level.

Say Try Mean Emotional Things Level

We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.

Class Demand Principle Making Sake

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Time Ability Earning Greatest Asset

When ISIS and al Qaeda have attacked or plotted attacks in the West in the past decade or so, they have invariably used hydrogen peroxide-based bombs because acquiring military-grade explosives or dynamite is nearly impossible for would-be terrorists in Western countries.

Past Impossible Decade In The Past

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