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Quotes About Mercury

Many Americans are unaware that discarded electronics often contain lead, mercury, and other toxins and end up being salvaged under inhumane conditions in the developing world.
~ Gene Green
Mercury in retrograde? More like I'm permanently insane no matter what the fuck Mercury does
~ Tao Lin
'Mercury' being a silent film needed a strong background score that could give you chills down the spine.
~ Santhosh Narayanan
Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
~ Alexander Pope
No more than five minutes later, the U-boat goes away. Shaftoe imagines it tumbling end-over-end down the side of the reef, headed for an undersea canyon, scattering gold bars and mercury globules into the black water like fairy dust. Shaftoe's back on the corvette and everyone is pounding him on the back and toasting him. He just wants to find a private place to open up that purple bottle.
~ Neal Stephenson
Paganism? Then we are all pagans! It is a symbol of Mercury—patron of commerce—who has been worshipped in this cellar—and in this city—for a thousand years, by Bishops as well as business-men. It is a cult that adapts itself to any religion, just as easily as quicksilver adopts the shape of any container—
~ Neal Stephenson
There was malachite green, and red; the intense red known as worm scarlet—tola'at shani in Hebrew—extracted from tree-dwelling insects, crushed up and boiled in lye. Later, when alchemists learned how to make a similar red from sulfur and mercury, they still named the color "little worm"—vermiculum. Some things don't change: we call it vermilion even today.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Mercury descended in vain; now has the time come for Mars.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The light at this hour, on this street, is the secondhand gray of ghetto twilight, a dull mercury color.
~ Colson Whitehead
Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics.
~ Mark Dayton
You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don't even believe in astrology.
~ Freddie Mercury
consider avoiding any supplementation, since supplement forms of Bt, can promote the methylation of inorganic mercury in the body, making it much more toxic and causing clinical compromise.
~ Thomas E. Levy
Sometimes during Mercury Retro I think, "Huh. This ain't so bad." & then that little bitch planet slaps me and I'm all, "On second thought."
~ laurie victoria
President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office.
~ Tom Allen
I miei pensieri erano come mercurio... scivolavano sempre via, prima che potessi afferrarli o sagomarli in forma coerente.
~ Dan Simmons
Every planet was a god, interested and vital in the affairs of men: Jupiter was Marduk, Mercury was Nabu, Mars was Nergal, the sun was Shamash, the moon was Sin, Saturn was Ninib, Venus was Ishtar.
~ Will Durant
I become ocean, mercury, silver shimmers, fairy tales, fascinated.
~ Helene Cardona
Towards the end of February 1928, I took the decision of using brilliant monochromatic illumination obtained by the aid of the commercially available mercury arcs sealed in quartz tubes.
~ C. V. Raman
There is abundant science out there that connects mercury exposure in vaccines to not only autism, but to ASD, to SIDS, to ADD, ADHD, language tics - which is like Tourette Syndrome - OCD, asthma, food allergies, and diabetes.
~ Robert Kennedy, Jr.
As for mercury, a child will almost certainly get more mercury exposure from her immediate environment than from vaccination. This is true, too, of the aluminum that is often used as an adjuvant in vaccines to intensify the immune response.
~ Eula Biss
How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?
~ Dan Burton
Fears that formaldehyde from vaccines may cause cancer are similar to fears of mercury and aluminum, in that they coalesce around miniscule amounts of the substance in question, amounts considerably smaller than amounts from other common sources of exposure to the same substance.
~ Eula Biss
Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like mercury then gathered up only at the last moment.
~ Jeanette Winterson
The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. You that; we this way.
~ William Shakespeare