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Not incidentally, lead's symbol is Pb, for the Latin plumbum, the source word for our modern plumbing.) The Romans also flavored their wine with lead, which may be part of the reason they are not the
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Rich women, including the queen, made themselves additionally beauteous by bleaching their skin with compounds of borax, sulfur, and lead--all at least mildly toxic,
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Alexander von Humboldt, yet another friend, may have had Agassiz at least partly in mind when he observed that there are three stages in scientific discovery: first, people deny that it is true; then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.
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The best indicator of personal risk is whether you have fallen much before. Accident proneness is a slightly controversial area among stair-injury epidemiologists, but it does seem to be a reality. About four persons in ten injured in a stair fall have been injured in a stair fall before.
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For forty years or so this was the world headquarters of conspicuous consumption.
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We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
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Bryson. You've got three kinds of chromosomes: X, Y and fuck-head. - Katz
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Blackpool's illuminations are nothing if not splendid, and they are not splendid.
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Excuse me, but I just have to say this. You are more stupid than a paramecium.
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Tell me, did they specify 'asshole' on the job description, or did you take a course?"
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The thing about the Army Corps of Engineers is that they don't build things very well.
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America was entering the age not just of the automobile but of the retarded attention span.
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There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it.
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Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead.
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Above all, what is oddest to the outsider is that Aborigines just aren't there.
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