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To burn oil!.. You can fuel with money as well.

— Dmitri Mendeleev

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I have no need of proof. The laws of nature, unlike the laws of grammar, admit of no exception.

In science we must all submit not to what seems to us attractive from one point of view or another, but to what represents an agreement between theory and experiment.

I wish to establish some sort of system not guided by chance but by some sort of definite and exact principle.

I suppose when my unknown elements are found, more people will pay us attention.

Doctor, you have science, I have faith.--to his physician, this was possibly a Jules Verne quote.

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

Jerome The Cry for Justice (1915)

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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