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“All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.”

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Glenn T. Seaborg

Glenn T. Seaborg was an American chemist renowned for his research on transuranic elements and the discovery of ten new elements. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1951 for his work on transuranic elements. more

“We as outsiders can't differentiate between Sunni and Shi'ah, but leave it to them and they'll get over the difficulty by some kind of hanky panky, just as the Turks did, and for the present it's the only way of getting over it. I don't for a moment doubt that the final authority must be in the hands of the Sunnis, in spite of their numerical inferiority; otherwise you will have a mujtahid-run, theocratic state, which is the very devil.”

Way Kind States Moments Hands Running Doubt Authority Devil Difficulty Finals Spite Over It Outsiders Get Over Inferiority Differentiate Getting Over It

Author:Gertrude Bell

“Until quite recently I've been wholly cut off from [the Shias] because their tenets forbid them to look upon an unveiled woman and my tenets don't permit me to veil Nor is it any good trying to make friends through the women - if they were allowed to see me they would veil before me as if I were a man. So you see I appear to be too female for one sex and too male for the other.”

Ifs Men Trying Looks Sex Cutting Female Males Look Up Permit Veils Shia

Author:Gertrude Bell

“When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.”

Games Business Cease Bad Things Egypt Digging

Book:Dead Towns and Living Men: Being Pages from an Antiquary's Notebook

Source: Dead Towns and Living Men: Being Pages from an Antiquary's Notebook

“In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance. I had found too, a comradeship inherent in the circumstances, and the belief that tranquility was to be found there.”

Found Belief Circumstances Civilization Possession Desert Inherent Tranquility Unattainable Comradeship

Book:Arabian Sands

Source: Arabian Sands

“I look at myself and read what people say on the internet and some fans say the club should get rid of me - which shows how fickle some people can be.”

People Should Looks Shows Fans Internet Clubs Fickle

Author:Robbie Savage

“Mark Hughes crossed every I and dotted every T.”

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Author:Robbie Savage

“If they had been fit, Kieran Gibbs and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain would also have made a difference down the left against United.”

Ifs Made Left Differences United Fit Alex Chamberlain

Author:Robbie Savage

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