George Fownes quotes
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“There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is connected with human civilization.”
-- George FownesSource : George Fownes (1845). “Elementary Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical”, p.224
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“Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.”
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“The society based on production is only productive, not creative.”
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“The human race has improved everything, but the human race.”
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Source : "The Soviet Colossus : History and Aftermath" by Michael Kort, (p. 172), 2001.
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“The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.”