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Quote by Roger McDonald

“I am master of my own destiny, and I can make my life anything that I wish it to be.”

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Roger McDonald is a renowned author born on June 23, 1941. His works are known for their profound character development and emotional expression, which have won him a wide audience. more

“Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator, with god, with the divine; and this is true no matter how unlikely, how strange, how unorthodox, one's particular life path might appear to one's self or others at any given moment.”

“You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.”

“If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.”

“We would be glad to have your friend come here to study, but tell him that we teach Chemistry here and not Agricultural Chemistry, nor any other special kind of chemistry. ... We teach Chemistry.”

Kind Would Be Science Teach Study Teaching Special Glad Chemistry

Author:Ira Remsen

“Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors indiscriminatly that abound with Sulphurous Salts, (under which I comprehend the Urinous and Volatile Salts of Animal Substances, and the Alcalisate or fixed Salts that are made by Incineration) have the virtue of Restoring it.”

Made Science Animal Virtue Woods Substance Fixed Chemistry Destroying Salt Acid Liquor Restoring Infusion

Author:Robert Boyle

“As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are at once forced to use the methods of this science [chemistry]. No longer will the microscope, the kymograph, the scalpel avail for the complete solution of the problem. For the further analysis of these phenomena which are in flux and flow, the investigator must associate himself with those who have labored in fields where molecules and atoms, rather than multicellular tissues or even unicellular organisms, are the units of study.”

Source: Experimental and chemical studies of the blood: with an appeal for more extended chemical training for the biological and medical investigator

“Chemistry dissolves the goddess in the alembic, Venus, the white queen, the universal matrix, Down to the molecular hexagons and carbon-chains.”

Science White Universal Chains Queens Chemistry Goddess Carbon Venus

Author:Kathleen Raine

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