Compounds Quotes

• Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.

  Marc Andreessen

  Innovation, Growth, Bigger

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• The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Character, Molecules, Elements

  Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (2013). “Mendeleev on the Periodic Law: Selected Writings, 1869 - 1905”, p.175, Courier Corporation

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• What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Change, Moving Forward, Pay The Price

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

  Tom Stoppard

  Two, Half, Truth Is

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.49, University of Michigan Press

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• The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Regret

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• We define organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds.

  August Kekule

  Science, Nomenclature, Chemistry

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• The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms.

  Johannes Stark

  Atoms, Exception, Series

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• When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers.

  Humphry Davy

  Two, Numbers, Elements

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• Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

  Robert Peel

  Feelings, Weakness, Public Opinion

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• Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.

  Jon Ronson

  Stories, Nightmare, Jew

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• Innovation accelerates and compounds.

  Marc Andreessen

  Innovation, Accelerate

  "Marc Andreessen On Innovation" by Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. September 23, 2009.

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• That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Keys, Sight

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

  Donald Cram

  Inspirational, Funny, Careers

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• In 1970, I had begun work on the basic pancreatic trypsin inhibitor which has later become the model compound for the development of protein NMR, molecular dynamics, and experimental folding studies in other laboratories.

  Robert Huber

  Development, Dynamics, Study

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• In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Firsts, Proof, Chemicals

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• The strongest force in the universe is Compound Interest.

  Albert Einstein

  Being Yourself, Being Real, I Love Myself

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• Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

  Philip Guedalla

  Men, Littles, Chemicals

  Philip Guedalla (1930). “Independence Day: A Sketchbook”

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• I believe you make your day. You make your life.

  Brad Pitt

  Believe, I Believe, Inspirational Celebrity

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• The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Genius, Literature, May

  Charles Caleb Colton (1866). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.123

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• A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.

  Anderson Cooper

  People, Suffering, Stories

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• Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality of the atoms of different elements consist.

  Johannes Stark

  Individuality, Doe, Different

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• Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.

  Cullen Hightower

  Moving Forward, Thinking, Futility Of Life

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• Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest!

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Powerful, Pay The Price, Literature

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Communication, Technology, Language

  On receiving the "Family of Man" Award, 1964.

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• I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.

  Brad Pitt

  Inspirational, Success, Believe

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