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It is better to be alone than in bad company.

George Washington

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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... Can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

John F. Kennedy

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An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Henry Miller

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The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Henry David Thoreau

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I am alone I am always alone no matter what.

Marilyn Monroe

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Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

Marilyn Monroe

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The doer alone learneth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Henry David Thoreau

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No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Henry David Thoreau

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Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

Erma Bombeck

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Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Martin Luther

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When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Sophia Loren

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Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Martin Luther

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I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.

Clint Eastwood

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Around 2000 different types of plants are used by humans to make food.

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While using energy from sunlight, plants turn carbon dioxide into food in a process called photosynthesis.

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Bamboo can be a fast growing plant, some types can grow almost a metre (3.28 feet) in just one day!

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Some plants are carnivores, gaining nutrients by eating various small insects and spiders. A well known example of a carnivorous plant is the Venus Flytrap.

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Tree resin which has been fossilized is known as amber, it sometimes contains plant material or small animals that were trapped inside.

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Bronze is a metal alloy made from copper and tin. Copper makes up the larger amount, usually between 80 to 95%.

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Metals are strong and are useful for making tools, buildings, bridges and other structures where strength is important.

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Tungsten has a very high melting point, after carbon it has the second highest melting point of all elements.

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Alkali metals such as sodium, potassium, rubidium, caesium and francium are extremely reactive elements, just putting them in water can result in an explosion! They are carefully stored in oil to prevent this happening.

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Aluminum is a good conductor of heat and is often used to make cooking pots.

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At room temperature, mercury is the only metal that is in liquid form.

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Copper is a good conductor of electricity and is often used for making wires.

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While aluminum is the most common metal found in the Earth's crust, the most common metal found on Earth is iron, mostly because it makes up such a large part of the Earth's core.

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The chemical symbol used for silver is Ag, this comes from the Latin word for silver, argentum.

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Gold is shiny and doesn't corrode, this means it is a great metal for making jewelry.

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One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.

– Dalton Trumbo –

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