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The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. – Humphry Davy

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort. – Humphry Davy

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In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy… its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter? – Humphry Davy

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African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans. – Xavier Becerra

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It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system. – Gavyn Davies

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes. – Greil Marcus

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The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower. – Audre Lorde

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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. – Proverb

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. – George Bernard Shaw

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The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism. – Francis Parker Yockey

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Never ask, “What reason do I have to be happy?” Instead ask, “To what purpose can I attach my happiness?” – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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