Carl Sagan Quotes, Stars Quotes, Iron Quotes

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Iron Quotes , Gold Quotes

The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

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All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

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Gold and iron are good To buy iron and gold.

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A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.

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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Iron Quotes

I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]

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As great Pythagoras of yore, Standing beside the blacksmith's door, And hearing the hammers, as they smote The anvils with a different note, Stole from the varying tones, that hung Vibrant on every iron tongue, The secret of the sounding wire. And formed the seven-chorded lyre.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Iron Quotes , Doors Quotes

The best stroked putt in a lifetime does not bring the aesthetic satisfaction of a perfectly hit wood or iron shot. There is nothing to match the whoosh and soar, the almost magical flight of a beautifully hit drive or 5-iron.

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What Britain needs is an iron lady.

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Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Iron Quotes , Leader Quotes

Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom, To shape and use.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Life Quotes , Iron Quotes

INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Iron Quotes , Water Quotes

But this is not a world of free freights. One pays according to an iron schedule--for every strength the balanced weakness; for every high a corresponding low; for every fictitious god-like moment an equivalent time in reptilian slime. For every feat of telescoping long days and weeks of life into mad magnificent instants, one must pay with shortened life, and, oft-times, with savage usury added.

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Tags : Jack London Quotes , Iron Quotes , Mad Quotes

Even a superficial glance is sufficient to show that all the innumerable forms in which the life-urge of Nature manifests itself are subject to a fundamental law - one may call it an iron law of Nature - which compels the various species to keep within the definite limits of their own life-forms when propagating and multiplying their kind.

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The iron ring is worn out by constant use. [Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.]

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You, the strong, have I loved, though the marks of your iron hoofs are yet upon my flesh.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Strong Quotes , Iron Quotes

My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.

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I'm gonna be Iron, like a Lion in Zion

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