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Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.”

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German physicist, inventor, and writer, known for his research in electricity and magnetism. He proposed Lichtenberg's law in electricity and invented various scientific instruments. more

“I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.”

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Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“I wrote an album about being in love. I don't think it's possible to write an album while you're in love - why on earth would you bother? I mean, Christ. If you're in there writing songs about someone rather than just being with them and kissing their every molecule, surely the person that you're with must be asking some questions as well.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Wells Mean Persons Earth Song Christ Kissing Asking Albums Bother Just Being Being In Love Writing Songs Molecules

Author:Gary Lightbody

“I think I write honestly about what goes on in a guy’s mind, and girls are interested in that. As a sex, we’re not the best communicators when it comes to talking to the women in our lives. I know I’m not – but I’m much better when I have a pen and paper in my hand.”

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Author:Gary Lightbody

“There's going to be a flood of opportunities right now but I don't think I could really talk about them.”

Thinking Opportunity Right Now Flood

Author:Chris Daughtry

“I'm not saying there's not darkness in there still, but it's happening from outward factors more than inward. Maybe things are terrifying, but they're beautiful, too. The world is extremely surprising.”

World Stills Beautiful Darkness Happenings Factors Surprising Inward

Author:Gary Lightbody

“This is our most complete record by far. A Hundred Million Suns sounds like the marriage of everything we learned from the Jeepster years and the Fiction years made into something new and bolder. Our spikiness and our indie-ness are coming through again with all the poppiness of the last two records. There's a lot of melody here and you can't cloak that whatever you do with it. This album is touched by our entire history, and hopefully sounds like our future too.”

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Author:Gary Lightbody

“Do not fight with the strength, absorb it, and it flows, use it.”

Use Fighting Flow

Author:Yip Man

“If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those least responsible for climate change and least able to afford adaptation, who would suffer the most.”

Ifs Children Able Suffering Poor Responsible Our Children Climate Climate Change Grandchildren Adaptation Curb Children And Grandchildren

Author:Jim Yong Kim

“Seen from the United States or Europe, Irans nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying.”

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Author:Yukiya Amano

“Satellite images suggest North Korea is building a light-water reactor and working on uranium enrichment. This is troubling.”

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Author:Yukiya Amano

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