Selman Quotes

#1. You mean other than the wings? I once ate nine snicker bars in a row without barfing. It was a record.

James Patterson

#2. Streptomycin belongs to a group of compounds, known as antibiotics, which are produced by microorganisms and which possess the property of inhibiting the growth and even of destroying other microorganisms.

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#3. It has been recognized since the dawn of microbiology that the soil is inhabited by a living microscopic population which is responsible for the numerous reactions that take place in the soil and that affect the life and economy of man in many ways.

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#4. From the moment he is born to the moment he dies, man is subject to the activities of numerous microbes.

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#5. With the exception of autotrophic bacteria, the green, or chlorophyll-bearing, plants are the only living forms on this planet capable of synthesizing organic matter out of inorganic elements and simple compounds.

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#6. How would you lift a giraffe with one hand? It doesn't matter as you won't find any one-handed giraffes! ***

Various

#7. Chess isn't a game of speed, it is a game of speech through actions

Matt Selman

#8. The whole of the American Dream has been based on the chance to get ahead, for one's self or one's children. Would this country have ever reached the point it has if the individual had always been refused the rewards of his labors and dangers?

James Adams

#9. We never gain in life by hurting others. Sometimes we try to elevate our own insecure egos by degrading and belittling those around us. Yet this produces only a false sense of self-esteem.

Billy Graham

#10. I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced.

Norman Parkinson

#11. So I've come to the conclusion that it is thus my own fault when these people I have been talking about finally stop saying "Ah" and tell me it's a pity I always do such odd things.

Barbara Wright

#12. Having a biopic made is very flattering.

Cilla Black

#13. I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.

Landon Donovan

#14. The discovery of streptomycin as a product of a rather obscure group of microorganisms, the actinomycetes, led to the study of these organisms as potential producers of other chemotherapeutic substances.

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#15. The soil is not a mass of dead debris, merely resulting from the physical and chemical weathering of rocks; it is a more or less homogeneous system which has resulted from the decomposition of plant and animal remains. It is teeming with life.

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#16. The first true antibiotic to be derived from a culture of an actinomyces was isolated in our department in 1940. The organism, Actinomyces antibioticus, yielded a substance which was designated as actinomycin. It was soon crystallized, and its chemical and biological properties were established.

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#17. I'm a believer in things happening for a reason.

Fleur East

#18. In the development of antibiotics, the soil microbiological population has contributed more than its share. It is to the soil that the microbiologists came in search of new antibacterial agents.

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#19. In learning to utilize antibiotics for the control of human and animal diseases, the medical and veterinary professions have acquired powerful tools for combating infections and epidemics.

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#20. The more you talk about price, the lower it gets.

Jim Meisenheimer

#21. The true exceptional performer is on super pilot. Every single sense, every fiber of his body is brought together in what he is doing.

John Eliot

#22. Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power.

Peter Schiff

#23. Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.

Patricia Briggs

#24. In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority.

Bernard Crick

#25. If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.

Elbert Hubbard