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• If we consider art as oxygen in our society, we have to deliver this oxygen.

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Our Society, Ifs

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• When youre on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes.

  Joan Van Ark

  Running, Air, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It required 85 parts by weight of oxygen and 15 parts of hydrogen to compose 100 parts of water.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Water, Weight, Hydrogen

  Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, David M. Knight (1998). “The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Elements of chemistry”, p.94, Taylor & Francis

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• Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.

  Janet Suzman

  Airports, Land, Evil

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• I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

  Hugh Downs

  Air, Missing, Ego

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• "God is a spirit." But that does not make him an immaterial being —a being that has no properties in common with matter. The expression "an immaterial being," is a contradiction in terms. Immateriality is only another name for nothing. It is the negative of all existence. A "spirit" is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.

  Orson Pratt

  Matter, Hydrogen, Spirit

  "The Kingdom of God".

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• Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.

  Asa Gray

  Animal, Years, Four Elements

  Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion: Two Lectures Delivered to the Theological School of Yale College”

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• On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing.

  Michael Stipe

  Movie, Cry, Embarrassing

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• The beach is definitely where I feel most at home. It's my oxygen. I forget how much I need it sometimes when I'm away working.

  Behati Prinsloo

  Beach, Home, Needs

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• I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Athlete, Thinking, People

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• Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water.

  Dan Quayle

  Distance, Believe, Water

  "A Quayle Vision of Mars" by Kathy Sawyer, www.washingtonpost.com. September 1, 1989.

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• We don't survive without plants and animals because we rely on them, we rely on plants to put oxygen into the atmosphere, we rely on ... fish and crops and cows to eat.

  Naomi Oreskes

  Animal, Atmosphere, Cows

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• If you take a flower to Mars, for example, the hostility of Mars probably won't allow the flower to live without oxygen. The process of being an artist, for someone who wasn't born in an arts-centric environment - I came from the Bahamas, where there's not a historic tradition of art-making, at least from the Western prospective - in a way is kind of an alien concept.

  Tavares Strachan

  Art, Flower, Mars

  "Tavares Strachan's desert explosion" by Matt Mullen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 1, 2017.

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• Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.

  James C. Collins

  Blood, Water, Body

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• A small sample of the oxygen molecules from any breath that anybody took within the past few thousand years is near certain to be in the next breath you take.

  David Bodanis

  Past, Years, Molecules

  David Bodanis (1988). “The secret house: 24 hours in the strange and unexpected world in which we spend our nights and days”, Touchstone Books

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• For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Breathe

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• Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you're really missing something.

  Peter Drucker

  Thinking, Breathing, Games

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• We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Giving, Breathe

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• Encouragement is oxygen for the soul

  John C. Maxwell

  Encouragement, Soul

  Twitter post from Oct 29, 2015

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• I am not proud to be gay any more than I am proud to be right handed or to breathe oxygen.

  Cleve Jones

  Gay, Proud, Breathe

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• I'm suffering from oxygen deprivation. It's overwhelming watching your career go by.

  Clint Eastwood

  Careers, Suffering, Deprivation

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• We are not carelessly designed creatures. Everything about us has purpose, logic and intelligence built into it, including how and why we become ill. The emotional, psychological and spiritual stresses present in our minds travel, like oxygen, to every part of our bodies. When stress settles is a particular area of the body, it is because that part of the body corresponds to the type of stress we are experiencing.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Stress, Emotional

  FaceBook post by Caroline Myss from Jun 05, 2014

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• Bet you never eat, he says. Bet you drink up the oxygen like it's butter. Bet you can go for days on nothing but thoughts.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Drink

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• When a dictator dies, oxygen increases in the world!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  World, Dictator, Increase

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• I felt okay for the first 45 seconds, and then my vision grew fussy. My lungs felt like deflated balloons. I would have sucked oxygen through my ears, if that were possible. I was experiencing oxygen debt, or perhaps better stated, oxygen death.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Vision, Ears, Debt

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