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Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves. Betty Friedan		Thursday Sep 17, 2026
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The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost maniacal impulse to seek their pleasures amongst smoke and vapour, soot and flames, poisons and poverty, yet amongst all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that I would rather die than change places with the King of Persia. Johann Joachim Becher

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	Johann Joachim Becher
	From Mendeleyev's Dream; Physica Subterranea (1667)

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The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost maniacal impulse to seek their pleasures amongst smoke and vapour, soot and flames, poisons and poverty, yet amongst all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that I would rather die than change places with the King of Persia.