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Small: I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, th
"I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite"
Leo Baekeland, Inventor
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Small: God gave me a great body and its my duty to take care of my physical temple
"God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple"
Jean Claude Van Damme, Actor
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Small: Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds
"Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds"
Henri La Fontaine, Lawyer
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Small: We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth
"We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth"
Albert Claude, Scientist
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Small: This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with
"This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case"
Albert Claude, Scientist
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Small: No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with
"No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools"
Albert Claude, Scientist
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Small: For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of it
"For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men"
Albert Claude, Scientist
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Small: This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative
"This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen"
Albert Claude, Scientist
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Small: The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found w
"The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival"
Albert Claude, Scientist
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Small: But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim tha
"But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?"
Albert Claude, Scientist
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Small: What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public
"What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public"
Jacky Ickx, Celebrity
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Small: To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I
"To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others"
Jacky Ickx, Celebrity
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Small: My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike
"My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike"
Jacky Ickx, Celebrity
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Small: We dont want protectionism at the heart of the European Union
"We don't want protectionism at the heart of the European Union"
Guy Verhofstadt, Statesman
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Small: Crises are challenges, not calamities
"Crises are challenges, not calamities"
Guy Verhofstadt, Statesman
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Small: The writers language is to some degree the product of his own action he is both the historian and the agent of
"The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language"
Paul de Man, Critic
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Small: The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - t
"The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements"
Paul de Man, Critic
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Small: Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth it both betrays and obeys its own mode of b
"Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being"
Paul de Man, Critic
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Small: Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament
"Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament"
Paul de Man, Critic
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Small: Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph pa
"Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars"
Leo Baekeland, Inventor
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Small: But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threaten
"But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices"
King Albert II, Royalty
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Small: The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarde
"The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West"
Henri Pirenne, Historian
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Small: Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at
"Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction"
Guy Verhofstadt, Statesman
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Small: The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship
"The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship"
Jacky Ickx, Celebrity
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Small: That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite o
"That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me"
Jacky Ickx, Celebrity
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Small: I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired
"I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired"
Jacky Ickx, Celebrity
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Small: Before the season begins, I had even damaged some frames, but Ken did not hold it against me and kept all his
"Before the season begins, I had even damaged some frames, but Ken did not hold it against me and kept all his confidence. He was the one who incontestably changed my life, because without his help, I do not know what I will have become"
Jacky Ickx, Celebrity
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Small: Not a living thing was to be seen and the cottages that sat huddled close to the ground remained fast shut the
"Not a living thing was to be seen and the cottages that sat huddled close to the ground remained fast shut; the smoke from the chimneys alone still gave a sign of life"
Stijn Streuvels, Writer
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Small: After a sound drubbing followed by half a days fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying and, in hal
"After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever"
Stijn Streuvels, Writer
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Small: The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion
"The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion"
Guy Verhofstadt, Statesman
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Small: Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that o
"Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means"
Paul de Man, Critic
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Small: Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, tha
"Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself"
Albert Claude, Scientist
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Small: For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the C
"For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor"
Albert Claude, Scientist
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Small: Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of mitochondria were detec
"Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894"
Albert Claude, Scientist
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Small: Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimens
"Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions"
Albert Claude, Scientist
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Small: It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, t
"It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle"
Albert Claude, Scientist
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Small: Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930
"Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930"
Leo Baekeland, Inventor
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Small: The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that foll
"The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature"
Paul de Man, Critic
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Small: In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899
"In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899"
Leo Baekeland, Inventor
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Small: One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon ou
"One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance"
King Albert II, Royalty
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