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Your Quotes for 7 August 2005 - Chemicals

On this day in 1978 the Niagara Falls, New York neighborhood known as Love Canal was declared a federal emergency due to chemicals disposed there over a period of thirty years. The name has become symbolic of misused and misplaced chemicals. Personally, I tend to be in favor of chemicals, and I have a few quotes to back me up.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
     - Carl Gustav Jung, 1875 - 1961

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
     - F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1896 - 1940

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
     - Lewis Thomas

They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.
     - Pierre Auguste Renoir, 1841 - 1919

One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.
     - John Muir, 1838 - 1914

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
     - Dave Barry

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