Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal.
Foreign aid, though less than 1% of the annual federal budget, is often a hard case to make to constituents who are rightfully worried about domestic and economic issues.
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
Nothing feels better than constructing a beautiful sentence.
Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations.
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.
Gender is more of a continuum than we are willing to admit when we hit the restroom.
There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.
Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
Show Republicans a shiny pro-life or pro-marriage issue and they'd much rather address that controversial topic than keep pressing on the tyranny that Obamacare represents.
E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.
What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.
