Quotes About Solvent

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Liquid water is the universal solvent, the mixing bowl where the first DNA probably got off the ground. If liquid-water oceans are found on these planets, it could alter our understanding of life in the universe. Journalists in search of a scandal say, "Follow the money," but astronomers searching for life in space say, "Follow the water.

Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free.

Grace is not a universal solvent to wash away God's standards.

El mercado sigue siendo el principal enemigo de la cohesión social (y de la cohesión mundial), pues su lógica sólo concibe una sociedad dividida en dos grupos: los solventes y los insolventes. Estos últimos, que ni producen ni consumen, no le interesan en absoluto; están, por decirlo así, fuera de juego. Por naturaleza, el mercado es un productor de desigualdades, lo que no le impide exhibir una arrogancia pasmosa.

To find my true identity, look for the simplicity freely suspended somewhere in the complex solution of evil and good. No matter what forms the solvent, what forms the solute.

American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.

Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.

Communication is the solvent of all problems and is the foundation for personal development.

The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.

Astrobiologists now believe that the existence of life throughout the universe requires: 1. a source of energy; 2. a type of atom that allows complex structures to exist; 3. a liquid solvent in which molecules can float and interact; and 4. sufficient time for life to arise and to evolve.

Water dissolves more substances than any other liquid, even acid.

But again I dont know. Maybe it didn't take even three years of freedom, immunity from it to learn that perhaps the entire dilemma of man's condition is because of the ceaseless gabble with which he has surrounded himself, enclosed himself, insulated himself from the penalties of his own folly, which otherwise—the penalties, the simple red ink—might have enabled him by now to have made his condition solvent, workable, successful.

The machine, the structure, was there, was real. Virek's money was a sort of universal solvent, dissolving barriers to his will . . .

Goof Off, which is a mixture of xylene and various other solvents. It's great for dried latex paint, as well as many inks and glues. Place the fabric, stain side down, on a white cotton towel and drip the solvent through. If this doesn't do the job, pour some of the solvent onto a piece of white cotton and dab at the stain. Never rub!

Social security has enabled people to retire with dignity and overwhelmingly not be in poverty. We have to keep it solvent.

Firewater Sometimes I think how alcohol's a marvelous solvent, can remove red people from a continent, turn bronze to guilt. What was DuPont's old motto—Better things for better living through chemistry? You take potatoes from Peru, barley from Palestine, maize from Mexico, sugar cane from

Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.

Keep your section solvent, keep your job.

Notes of joy have a special STP solvent in them that dissolves all the gluey engine deposits of heartache. War and woe don't have anything like the range and reach that notes of joy do.