Lithium Quotes

• It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.

  Elon Musk

  Technology, Thinking, Cells

  "Extended Interview: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk". Interview with Spencer Michels, www.pbs.org. June 25, 2008.

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• Lithium tweaks many mood-altering chemicals in the brain, and its effects are complicated. Most interesting, lithium seems to reset the body’s circadian rhythm, its inner clock. In normal people, ambient conditions, especially the sun, dictate their humors and determine when they are tuckered out for the day. They’re on a twenty-four-hour cycle. Bipolar people run on cycles independent of the sun. And run and run.

  Sam Kean

  Running, Independent, People

  Sam Kean (2011). “The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table”, p.252, Random House

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• You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons", they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron."

  Richard P. Feynman

  Two, Numbers, Three

  Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.113, Princeton University Press

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• I also was producing, working on other materials for the hydrogen bomb. They call it lithium-6 and tritium. I was working on these and the only use for lithium-6 is the hydrogen bomb.

  Mordechai Vanunu

  Hydrogen Bomb, Use, Bombs

  "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

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• Lithium is like a beautiful lady, very much sought and pursued, especially in Bolivia. There is data indicating Bolivia has the largest reserves of lithium in the world.

  Evo Morales

  Beautiful, Data, Bolivia

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.

  Zach Braff

  Parent, Great Relationship

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• Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries.

  Saul Williams

  Art, Wind, Play

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Apparently Bolivia is the key source of lithium in the world. So we're gonna trade the Saudis for the Bolivians.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Keys, Bolivia, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• ... every time I got disappointed I'd remember the Roseannadanna philosophy that says that you shouldn't cry over split milk 'cause if you spill some milk and instead of cleaning it up you just walk over it and start crying, they're gonna put you on lithium.

  Gilda Radner

  Philosophy, Splits, Milk

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• The ideal protective layer for a lithium metal anode needs to be chemically stable to protect against the chemical reactions with the electrolyte and mechanically strong to withstand the expansion of the lithium during charge.

  Steven Chu

  Strong, Expansion, Needs

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• But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is decimated, your mortification complete: mania is not a luxury one can easily afford. It is devastating to have the illness and aggravating to have to pay for medications, blood tests, and psychotherapy. They, at least, are partially deductible. But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depression, Loss, Luxury

  Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison (2007). “Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression”, p.40, Oxford University Press

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• Those organisations, al-Qaeda being the first one, have all settled in areas full of mining and oil resources or in geostrategic zones. They settled in Afghanistan which underground is filled with oil and lithium. North Mali is filled with mining resources (uranium). It is essential to question the impact and role of some international players that create or let those organisations settle there.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Player, Oil, Impact

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• I finally came to terms with manic depression and lithium. I've taken lithium regularly for the past few years and have had no further bouts with manic depression.

  Charley Pride

  Depression, Taken, Past

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• My father was on the Alcoholics Anonymous wishlist. My mother was on... parole. And lithium.

  Christopher Titus

  Mother, Father, Alcoholics Anonymous

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Diazapam (that's valium), temazepam, lithium, ECT, HRT - how long must I stay on this stuff? Don't give me anymore!

  Steven Morrissey

  Long, Giving, Stuff

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• I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. Like all the drugs put together – the lithium, the Prozac, the desipramine, and Desyrel that I take to sleep at night – can no longer combat whatever it is that was wrong with me in the first place. I feel like a defective model.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Sleep, Night, Drug

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Women who put on a few pounds after starting lithium sometimes say the cure is worse than the disease. The weight gain shoots them straight into depression.

  Patty Duke

  Bipolar, Weight, Disease

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.152, Bantam

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• The dumping of the mentally ill, full of these new psychiatric drugs, into the streets is a scandal. It's been carried furthest in New York, where whole sections of the decayed Upper West Side are being filled with pensioners and psychotic patients on stelazine, lithium carbonate, and everything else under the sun. They can't diagnose the patient, so they give him the whole psychiatric pharmacopoeia at once, and he walks around in a psychotic trance beautifully painted all over with petrochemicals.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  New York, Giving, Drug

  "An Autobiographical Novel". Book by Kenneth Rexroth. Chapter: "Pysch Ward", www.bopsecrets.org. 1991.

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• When discs form around stars, there is interaction of angular momentum between disc, planets and parent star, and this interaction affects the rotation of the parent star, and that will affect the lithium abundance.

  Garik Israelian

  Stars, Parent, Momentum

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• I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic-depressive illness. If lithium were not available to me, or didn't work for me, the answer would be a simple no... and it would be an answer laced with terror. But lithium does work for me, and therefore I can afford to pose the question. Strangely enough, I think I would choose to have it. It's complicated.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Simple, Thinking, Choices

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.133, Pan Macmillan

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• Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced.

  Molly Ivins

  Country, Fun, Men

  "The Fun’s in the Fight" by Molly Ivins, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1993.

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