quotes about Crucible
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The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature.
-- Alfred HarkerSource : Alfred Harker (2011). “The Natural History of Igneous Rocks”, p.282, Cambridge University Press
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Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
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Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.
-- Andrew DavidsonSource : Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.108, Canongate Books
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There's very little greatness in this world, but in the crucible of quality there's a special corner reserved for Van Halen.
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New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious.
-- Ford Madox FordSource : Ford Madox Ford (1927). “New York Essays”
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Cities are the crucible of civilization.
-- Geoffrey WestSource : Geoffrey West (2017). “Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies”, p.8, Penguin
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When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.
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No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.
-- Israel ZangwillSource : Israel Zangwill, Edna Nahshon (2006). “From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot: Israel Zangwill's Jewish Plays : Three Playscripts”, p.288, Wayne State University Press
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Sudan is not really a country at all, but many. A composite layers, like a genetic fingerprint of memories that were once fluid, but have since crystallized out from the crucible of possibility
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In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?
-- Joan HalifaxSource : "Joan Halifax, Roshi – Letting Go, Letting in Light: Halifax Talks about Her Life & Groundbreaking Book, Being with Dying". Interview with Joy Stocke, www.wildriverreview.com.
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Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
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Ask yourself: What forms the decisions you make? What is it that gnaws at you? What are your crucible moments?
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A mage's soul is forged in the crucible of the magic
-- Margaret WeisSource : Margaret Weis (2011). “The Soulforge: The Raistlin Chronicles, Volume One”, p.14, Wizards of the Coast
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The molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us because, in fact, the universe is in us. And, we are not only figuratively, but literally, stardust.
-- Neil deGrasse TysonSource : Source: www.cbsnews.com
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Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body...are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically.
-- Neil deGrasse TysonSource : Song: Colors Of The Wind
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No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca -
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Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.
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With Crucible, any big changes I wanted to make I only had to run by Lucasfilm, not other authors whose stories I might affect.
-- Troy Denning -
We have the opportunity now to join in the celebration of possibility, to align ourselves with the forces of life. We’ll need to become skilled at walking the line between urgency and hope, maintaining our balance in a world out of balance. I’m convinced that out of the crucible of crisis, the greatest love story on Earth could be born.
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Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.
-- William Peter BlattySource : William Peter Blatty (1971). “The Exorcist”
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It is in the quiet crucible of your personal, private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God's greatest gifts are given.
-- Wintley Phipps -
My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes out of that crucible of language - that working in poetry and prose is energizing - to me as a writer and to the work itself.
-- Alex LemonSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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I remember when I was doing The Crucible on Broadway with Laura Linney, and Arthur Miller had been in rehearsal with us and was on stage on opening night. She turned to me during the curtain call and said, Lets make sure we remember this.
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And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know that I can do it.
-- Abigail Williams -
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Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.
-- Philip SchultzSource : Source: poems.com
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Texas mystique (has been) created by the chemistry of the frontier in the crucible of history and forged into an enduring state of heart and mind.
-- T. R. FehrenbachSource : T. R. Fehrenbach (2014). “Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans”, p.4, Open Road Media
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Let you look to your own improvement before you go to judge your husband anymore.
-- John Proctor