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One day, when the world market is more or less fully developed and can no longer be suddenly enlarged, and if labour productivity continues to advance, then sooner or later the periodic clashes between productive forces and market barriers will begin, and because of their recurrence, these will naturally become increasingly rough and stormy.
Rosa Luxemburg
Day
World
Will
Become
Increasingly
Market
Later
One Day
More
More Or Less
Developed
Advance
Recurrence
Sooner
Between
Sooner Or Later
Longer
Periodic
Forces
Because
Begin
Labour
Stormy
Then
Productive
Naturally
Productivity
Less
Fully
Barriers
Rough
Suddenly
People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.
David Attenborough
Future
You
People
Too Many People
Living
Too
See
About
Scenarios
Perfectly
Clearly
Talk
Periodic
Due
Africa
Sustain
Happening
Them
Land
Many
Now
If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.
David Mitchell
Love
Death
Power
Reckon
Would
Would-Be
Table
Hydrogen
Periodic
Were
Condition
Human
Maybe
Oxygen
Where
Human Condition
Helium
It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.
Edward Boyden
You
Looking
Think
Kinds
Table
Computer
Like
Periodic
Known
How
Were
Brain
Cells
Really
Many
Even
Thing
The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.
George Saunders
Love
Kindness
Culture
Fear
Local
Hunger
Reliable
Details
Constant
Exaltation
Rises
Laws
Absence
Merely
Periodic
Up
Human
Predictable
Naturally
Universal
Beloved
Need
Our country undergoes periodic episodes of extreme intolerance and fear of foreigners, refugees in particular. Not only were people of Japanese descent placed in internment camps during World War II, but so were some Italians and Germans.
Richard Cohen
War
People
World
Fear
Country
Our
Extreme
Intolerance
Some
Only
Particular
Periodic
Were
Foreigners
Italians
Germans
Camps
Refugees
Placed
Japanese
Episodes
Descent
Internment
World War
World War II
The Devonian and Cornishman will be found by the visitor to be courteous and hospitable. There is no roughness of manner where unspoiled by periodic influx of strangers; he is kindly, tender-hearted, and somewhat suspicious.
Sabine Baring-Gould
Will
Strangers
Visitor
Kindly
Somewhat
He
Periodic
Courteous
Suspicious
Where
Manner
Found
Despite its obscurity, probably no element on the periodic table has as colorful a history as antimony. Money, madness, poison, linguistics, charlatanism, sex - pretty much every theme that runs through the periodic table can be found in Element 51.
Sam Kean
History
Money
Madness
Sex
Poison
Every
Despite
Runs
Table
Pretty
Through
Colorful
Obscurity
Periodic
Linguistics
Theme
Much
Element
Found
When first presented with the jumble of the periodic table, I scanned for mercury and couldn't find it. It is there - between gold, which is also dense and soft, and thallium, which is also poisonous. But the symbol for mercury, Hg, consists of two letters that don't even appear in its name.
Sam Kean
First
Consists
Find
Table
Poisonous
Mercury
Between
Name
Also
Periodic
Dense
Jumble
Gold
Which
Appear
Even
Letters
Symbol
Presented
Two
Soft
Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impression and wriggle its way into the matrix of a diamond. But it has one fewer electron, so it can't quite form the same four perfect bonds.
Sam Kean
Diamond
Way
Neighbor
Table
Perfect
Periodic
Impression
Matrix
Same
Fewer
Quite
Form
Which
Means
Electron
Carbon
Four
Bonds
Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.
Sam Kean
Doctors
Gentleman
Harmless
Despite
Table
Seems
Fact
Soothe
Like
Overall
Most
Periodic
Ulcer
Scoundrels
In Fact
Company
Element
Among
Prescribe
Keeps
Medicinal
One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
Sam Kean
Future
Writing
Will
King
Energy
Ran
Table
About
Over
Periodic
Question
Replace
Which
While
Theme
Element
Elements
Carbon
Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
Sam Kean
Daily
Natural
Light
Atoms
Single
Every
Our
Table
All-Around
Atom
Given
Small
Obscure
Weighty
Almost
Over
Periodic
Around
How
Least
Years
Common
Against
Them
Us
Certain
Body
Your
Your Body
Many
Element
Lives
Daily Lives
Nearly
Humans
Incorporate
To be truly engaged at work, your brain needs periodic breaks to gain fresh perspective and energy.
Shawn Achor
Work
Needs
Perspective
Energy
Periodic
Fresh
Truly
Brain
Gain
Breaks
Engaged
Your
Structured settlements are a common way for people who have been injured to receive an insurance payout. The periodic payments provide ongoing income and reduce the risk of blowing a lump sum through poor financial choices.
Suze Orman
People
Financial
Settlements
Sum
Way
Ongoing
Risk
Structured
Through
Periodic
Insurance
Reduce
Been
Provide
Blowing
Common
Poor
Choices
Payments
Who
Income
Injured
Lump
Receive
We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap.
Aldrich Ames
Intelligence
Country
Crises
Had
Support
Missile
Periodic
Policy
Gap
Technical
Bomber
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