In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best represented is the district that is wise enough to select a man of energy, intelligence, and integrity and reelects him year after year. A man of this type and character serves more efficiently and effectively the longer he is returned by his people.
Sam Rayburn
Related Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS My life is a struggle. VOLTAIRE Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best. ROBERT SIAHAAN I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ... JOHN MUIR Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. I wish I was home", She said miserably. She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We hear year after year that this is the year that Congress is going to act. Simply hoping Congress ... CAMERON DAVIS I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one w... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS Life is a risk. CARMELO ANTHONY Without music, life is a journey through a desert. PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. POPE FRANCIS This world is a peaceful stage where we are all villains of this drama and trees are the heroes. DEBASISH MRIDHA Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living. ADI ALSAID Don’t let the enemy try to keep you bound with fear. The devil is a liar. Stay in faith and trust ... GERMANY KENT Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one. NOW IS GOOD My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many... KOJO ANNAN How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and... JOHN ADAMS That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f... GEORGE HARRISON What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a... DEYTH BANGER I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a ... PAT BUCKLEY To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. MARCUS AURELIUS Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA For the past 6 years, it is my privilege and honor to serve as the Representative for California's 4... MARY BONO Be grateful for every moment and every breath. TERESA COLLINS Life is a school of probability. WALTER BAGEHOT This life is a process of learning. LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process. ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Everybody in life is a chameleon. MELANIE CHISHOLM I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ... TAMMARA WEBBER Life is a grand party. EZRA MILLER You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'... FLANNERY O'CONNOR A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A great future starts with what you can see SOTONYE ANGA I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Sex joins two people spiritually and emotionally as well as physically. This is its purpose-to bond ... CRAIG GROESCHEL You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi... DEYTH BANGER A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love. RAQUEL CEPEDA Once again this year, Sam has been one of the most consistent and dependable scores in the district.... DOUG MEREDITH When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec... GEORGE P. ELLIOTT My life is a series of things that just happen. HAROLD RUSSELL My life is a mosaic, and there's no room in between pieces at all. MARCIA CLARK This is your fault. I'm going to kill you. And all the cake is gone. You don't even care, do yo... J.K. SIMMONS This project is too large for the historic district, it jeopardizes the integrity and character of o... LIVIA LANDRY They may not know each other to say it, but it was never hidden. How much ever they hated each other... PARUL WADHWA When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE My grandfather was an amazing man. You talk about character and integrity, everyone who knew him, wh... TAGG ROMNEY Please be SILENT and LISTEN. I am the SCHOOLMASTER and you are in the CLASSROOM. Just... PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. CRAIG GROESCHEL The secret of my success is my hairspray. RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. PATRICK ROTHFUSS 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci... DEYTH BANGER I thought to myself that I couldn't go out like that. I've placed freshman and sophomore year. My go... KYLE KINCHEN The end is the matter! A step to the end is a factor! ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check... APURVA GAGLANI It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr... GARY F EVANS... You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS Dedication is the preparation to success! WERNER BOTHA Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get ex... AARON SCHOCK Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes! DEYTH BANGER Life is a game and true love is a trophy. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT 15. “The love of money is the root of all evil” (1Timothy 6:10, KJV). That’s why Jesus issues ... JAMES C. DOBSON The first half of the season is your preparation for district. Our main objective is No. 1 to win a ... CHARLES VIDRINE It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Ah, the magic of music, with it, all things are possible. E.A. BUCCHIANERI There are types of people who want to have leverage over other people's lives. For no other reason t... C. JOYBELL C. Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that. JAMES DYSON Life is a lot like skateboarding. LIL WAYNE All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love. MORIHEI UESHIBA For me, life is a bowl of cherries. SISSY SPACEK
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what... SAM RAYBURN The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart. SAM RAYBURN I like power and I like to use it. SAM RAYBURN Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions. SAM RAYBURN If you want to get along, go along. SAM RAYBURN When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.' SAM RAYBURN Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. SAM RAYBURN Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time. SAM RAYBURN You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too. SAM RAYBURN A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice. SAM RAYBURN Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If ... SAM RAYBURN It has always been my ambition since childhood to live such a life that one day my fellow citizens w... SAM RAYBURN Youll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you dont have to remember what you have ... SAM RAYBURN You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you hav... SAM RAYBURN Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it. SAM RAYBURN If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is. SAM RAYBURN Don't try to go too fast. Learn your job. Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about..... SAM RAYBURN No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. SAM RAYBURN Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time. SAM RAYBURN Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one. SAM RAYBURN A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one. SAM RAYBURN When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble. SAM RAYBURN When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble SAM RAYBURN I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but ge... SAM RAYBURN (My parents) were supposed to fly here this afternoon and they couldn't get to the airport. SAM RAYBURN We have a really deep tackle corps. It's definitely a vote of confidence [for the defensive line], b... SAM RAYBURN It's been more disappointing than frustrating. To make sure I'm back in playing shape was one of my ... SAM RAYBURN It?s not much different. It?s still the same personality. We?re still blue-collar guys. It?s just on... SAM RAYBURN When you love the game you love to get as much playing time as you can. I'll take all they'll give t... SAM RAYBURN Leadership must be established from the top down. SAM RAYBURN A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one SAM RAYBURN It's like when you know something bad is coming. You know it's coming, so you brace for it. But then... SAM RAYBURN Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one SAM RAYBURN We've thought about what would happen if she would go there. I've gotten to know her family. I don't... BRITTANY RAYBURN It's good that it's happening now instead of in two years when I have to make a decision. I think it... BRITTANY RAYBURN I need to get in the weight room. I'm obviously skinny. BRITTANY RAYBURN We went into the Covington game a little too cocky. That was a big bump in our road. I think we'll h... BRITTANY RAYBURN She's a great coach, but I've always been a die-hard Boiler fan. I'm not sure I would have gone ther... BRITTANY RAYBURN It's always been my dream to go to college for basketball on a scholarship. I always wished my senio... BRITTANY RAYBURN There's been rumors going around that we're not as good as everybody thinks. So we were going to com... DEEANN RAYBURN It'll come to you in a month in a plain brown wrapper with no return address. GENE RAYBURN After coming back against Bloomfield (in the regional final), we know we can do it. Nothing fell for... DEEANN RAYBURN It killed us. I had to sit the rest of the time and we had no defender on (Brittany) Schoen. DEEANN RAYBURN Without those inside players, it allowed us to spread them out. It helped tremendously. DEEANN RAYBURN We have proven when we develop groups and organize around a product we are able to bring better tech... DAVID RAYBURN While we were able to continue generating revenue growth, this was offset by ongoing weakness in the... DAVID RAYBURN I continue to be pleased with the Company's underlying performance in the areas that it can control.... DAVID RAYBURN Given the current outlook for industry volumes and cost challenges we are taking a more cautious pos... DAVID RAYBURN Unfortunately, many of these factors continue to persist. In addition, several other factors have de... DAVID RAYBURN We're sorry you didn't win any money but you will be receiving a broken clavicle and a jar of olives... GENE RAYBURN My heart only beats for you but you never listen it SAM You want to be happy? you should first learn how to let it go SAM Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons close... SAM KEAN Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. SAM WALTON Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normal... SAM YAGAN A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live unde... SAM HOUSTON Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. SAM KEEN We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly... SAM KEEN It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he woul... SAM LEVENSON I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to fil... SAM RAIMI Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic bo... SAM RAIMI Some movies to me are like vampires - they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like tha... SAM RAIMI R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts. SAM RAIMI I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan makin... SAM RAIMI I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that ... SAM RAIMI My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never... SAM RAIMI I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise. SAM RAIMI Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's ... SAM RAIMI It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot. SAM RAIMI As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I ... SAM RAIMI I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give the... SAM RAIMI I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me. SAM RAIMI I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately wit... SAM RAIMI I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I reall... SAM RAIMI I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me the... SAM RAIMI I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just tr... SAM RAIMI I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr... SAM RAIMI You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes ... SAM RAIMI I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were an... SAM RAIMI Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me. SAM RAIMI That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are ca... SAM RAIMI If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original. SAM RAIMI I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construct... SAM RAIMI When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the... SAM RAIMI I love cats. I've had cats as pets. SAM RAIMI The Price Is Right can really get me going. SAM PECKINPAH Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee. SAM PECKINPAH Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists. SAM PECKINPAH Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love. SAM PECKINPAH The end of a picture is always an end of a life. SAM PECKINPAH Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kin... SAM PALLADIO My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never... SAM PALLADIO As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of ... SAM PALLADIO I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value! SAM PALLADIO If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you'... SAM PALLADIO Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy. SAM NEILL 'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that. SAM NEILL I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'... SAM NEILL I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat co... SAM NEILL I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love... SAM NEILL As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job. SAM NEILL When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the gr... SAM NEILL I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. T... SAM NEILL If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertain... SAM NEILL I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi... SAM NEILL When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting. SAM NEILL Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work. SAM NEILL People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things. SAM NEILL I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, i... SAM NEILL I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go. SAM NEILL I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character. SAM NEILL I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a... SAM NEILL No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down. SAM NEILL Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to ... SAM MENDES It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thi... SAM MENDES For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie. SAM MENDES One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working wi... SAM MENDES I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. SAM MENDES Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that. SAM MENDES Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o... SAM MENDES I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe... SAM MENDES You think about taking audiences on a journey. SAM MENDES If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything. SAM MENDES I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I ... SAM MENDES One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films. SAM MENDES All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which... SAM MENDES Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces. SAM MENDES The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words. SAM MENDES You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all. SAM MENDES I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big m... SAM MENDES There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. Th... SAM MENDES The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts... SAM MENDES You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,... SAM MENDES I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it. SAM MENDES The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - w... SAM MENDES I don't think good and evil are polarized. SAM MENDES I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is... SAM MENDES It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. Bu... SAM MENDES I want to inspire, and be inspired. SAM MENDES Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor. SAM LEVENSON I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom? SAM LEVENSON Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, b... SAM LEVENSON The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still an... SAM LEVENSON When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem ... SAM LEVENSON You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice. SAM LEVENSON One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your im... SAM LEVENSON Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' c... SAM LEVENSON It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite. SAM LEVENSON We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got t... SAM LEVENSON I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow! SAM LEVENSON Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier. SAM LEVENSON Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it. SAM LEVENSON If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her l... SAM LEVENSON You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all... SAM LEVENSON I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings. SAM KINISON I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you ... SAM KINISON I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to wo... SAM KINISON I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild. SAM KINISON Everything can be satirized. SAM KINISON I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'... SAM KINISON I'm attracted to heartbreakers. SAM KINISON It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there. SAM KINISON Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row. SAM KINISON If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows. SAM KINISON I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order. SAM KINISON AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion. SAM KINISON Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change. SAM KINISON Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth. SAM KINISON I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. SAM KINISON In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up.... SAM KINISON Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water sl... SAM KINISON Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. SAM KINISON Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attit... SAM KINISON I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn&... SAM KINISON My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it! SAM KINISON You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's no... SAM KINISON You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart. SAM KEEN A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that ... SAM KEEN Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wr... SAM KEAN I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your p... SAM KEAN Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you... SAM KEAN In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more deman... SAM KEAN The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations - ren... SAM KEAN Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe... SAM KEAN Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civili... SAM KEAN Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges... SAM KEAN Guinea pigs are practically synonymous with experiments. Lab rats have become the workhorses of mode... SAM KEAN Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic subs... SAM KEAN One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy a... SAM KEAN Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors... SAM KEAN The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including w... SAM KEAN The body tends to treat elements in the same column of the periodic table as equivalents. SAM KEAN America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpa... SAM KEAN The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and... SAM KEAN Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impres... SAM KEAN Most people, even most doctors, learn that the placenta is a nice, tight seal that prevents anything... SAM KEAN I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolat... SAM KEAN Brain surgery couldn't happen without the patient's own active voice to guide the work. The ... SAM KEAN Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in. SAM KEAN I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they w... SAM HUNTINGTON