Sam Kean Quotes

The noble gases, which reside on the East Coast of the periodic table, are its aristocrats - detached and aloof, never bothering to interact with the rabble of common elements that make up the vast majority of the world.

Sam Kean

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WorldTableNeverUpNobleCommon

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

John Gay

FriendProveOpenCurseMayWorse

With skin and beauty, it always starts from within. So I try to eat very healthy.

Mia Goth

BeautySkinHealthyTryEatWithin

The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.

Roger Mudd

RelationshipConstitutionSourRaw

I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican.

Roddy Doyle

ManGlassesBe DifferentBaldJust

My partner of 45 years is Australian, and a big part of her character is that marvellous quality of irony which Aussies possess. I relish their humour and sense of fairness.

Miriam Margolyes

CharacterQualityPartnerFairness

There is a short window at the beginning of one's professional life, when it is comparatively easy to take big risks. Make the most of that time, before circumstances make you risk averse.

Joshua Foer

LifeTimeBeginningRisksWindow

No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.

Deepak Chopra

SolutionThreeDifferentFoundEver

Web projects aren't done until I'm happy, or someone changes the password to the server. A formal release does not stop me from working on it more.

Chris Milk

HappyMeSomeoneStopDoneChanges

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.

Antiphanes

WrongRightQuestRight And Wrong

My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuchang. We four children spoke Chinese before we spoke English. We left when the communists came, in the early 1930s. I was about 5 years old.

Audrey Meadows

FamilyFatherChildrenCityEarly

That's where I'll get the love in my heart: from, the fact that little young guys can look at the obstacles that I had to go through to become a Hall of Famer and know it's not so bad when it comes to them trying to accomplish the same goal.

Allen Iverson

LoveHeartObstaclesLookBadGoal

The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism does not discriminate by race, ethnicity or region. Instead, terrorists indiscriminately target those seeking to live a peaceful, loving and free life.

Allyson Schwartz

LifeLiveFreePeacefulLovingRace

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