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Mercury is a potent toxin that interferes with the human nervous system. Reducing this hazard will be a major public health breakthrough.


Frances Beinecke

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FRANCES BURNEY The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
FRANCES BURNEY People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one fea...
FRANCES BURNEY To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I r...
FRANCES BURNEY A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment...
FRANCES BURNEY I can swear like a fishwife.
FRANCES BAY I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered m...
FRANCES BAY The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; an...
FRANCES WRIGHT Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back ag...
FRANCES RODMAN I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that ha...
FRANCES FARMER Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave tow...
FRANCES RODMAN After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought...
FRANCES MCDORMAND It is a purely relative matter where one draws the plimsoll-line of condemnation, and if you find th...
FRANCES PARTRIDGE Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.
FRANCES CORNFORD Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true frie...
FRANCES FARMER One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sur...
FRANCES BURNETT It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry; that the freedom of markets trumps ...
FRANCES O'GRADY Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
FRANCES WRIGHT But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of t...
FRANCES WRIGHT I am desperately seeking love, but also desperately avoiding it
FRANCES IVY Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at si...
FRANCES WRIGHT