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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

If we're talking about chemical or biological agents coming in, or God forbid a nuclear device, the fact is that drug dealers have been smuggling drugs in for years. It shows us how porous the U.S. is to illegal substances coming in, and in large quantities.

Brian Houghton

We don't do it to catch people, [but] we do it to deter the use of banned substances.

Frank Uryasz

We take all these undesirable medium-weight substances and convert them to the useful higher- and lower-weight products.

Alan Goldman

It is easier for fructose to be made into fat than for glucose to be made into fat. Additionally, there is a relatively strong literature showing negative consequences of fructose compared to glucose with respect to raising fatty substances in the blood.

Joanne R. Lupton

We have consistently pointed out that The Bahamas neither produces these substances, nor is it the ultimate destination for them. That does not stop those who consume the drugs from blaming countries like ours for this scourge. It is most unfair.

Fred Mitchell

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

Robert Southey

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

Alvin Toffler

What is significant is that the use of these substances has declined substantially since the recent peak levels reached in the mid-1990s.

Lloyd Johnston

In the drug world, this thing is probably nothing, ... But in a town of 15,000 people where we have one or two children die every year because of controlled substances, it is a big deal to us.

Dave Olsen

If they are faithful to the church, they don't ingest any illicit substances ever, ... They may have taken peyote in a religious context hundreds or thousands of times, and have never abused alcohol or cocaine. It's a distinctly pure population.

John Halpern

When children's minds are open to new ideas and concepts at the age of six, they could be taught the basics of molecular structure, how Oxygen and Hydrogen and Carbon join up to make ever-day substances. By the age of 14, their minds are already doubtful of new ideas which suggest something fundamentally different to what they know, and they can no longer be inspired into exploring science.

Johnny Ball

What was at issue is whether a federal drug law, the controlled Substances Act, gives the Attorney General the power to second guess states' assisted suicide policies. And the court said that the congressional drug law didn't clearly give the Attorney General that authority. That's all it held.

Mark Moller

Dangerous substances do not respect international or national borders. They can only be fought with common strategies.

Goeran Persson

Some of (the young people) have been exposed to a culture that suggests that in order to have fun you need to … use mood-altering substances. They're getting those messages from hip-hop artists and many other ways. This is one of our efforts to try to counteract … those messages.

Benjamin Jones

The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which men shall fly along distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration to be.

Simon Newcomb

Sugar is the gold standard for companies that make artificial sweeteners. But it's packed with calories. Most of these other substances have few to no calories.

Jeannine Delwiche

I have not taken any illegal substances as reported. I was suspended two years ago and would never do anything like that again.

Mariano Puerta

We'll be putting a list of the items on our Web site soon. In the meantime, more information is available at the California Integrated Waste Management Board and Department of Toxic Substances Control Web sites.

Luke Serpa

This is the largest civil administrative penalty EPA has ever obtained under any environmental statue. Not by a little, by a lot. EPA takes violations of toxic substances laws seriously and is committed to enforcing those laws. This settlement sends a strong message that companies are responsible for promptly informing EPA about risk information associated with their chemicals.

Granta Y. Nakayama

Asbestos is just so ubiquitous; it's everywhere. If you look at a lot of the substances that are causing major environmental headaches these days, the reason they are such a problem is because they were so good at what they did.

Jeff Bachman

Bush campaign aides are taking political spin to a new level. Yesterday, they had to invent phone calls to put some substances behind their candidate's performance on Oprah.

Kym Spell

I would suspect, ... that the odds of being killed as a result of a terrorist use of biological substances are even greater than that.

Brian Jenkins

[Coping will also, in some cases, likely involve substance abuse counseling.] Substance abuse can go up, ... For many, substances are a mechanism to cope. And stress may increase the desire to utilize substances.

Richard Hatch

People with asthma or allergies will be at particular risk of breathing in substances that are a threat to their health.

Rosemary Shahan

Nothing in the materials collected suggest that there was anything on the banned list of substances.

Richard Ings

Good nutrition can help students feel energized and productive throughout their day, and in this way can help reduce the desire to abuse substances like nicotine, caffeine or stimulants.

Laura Collins

I want to say that I have never intentionally used any banned substances. It is a huge and horrible mistake.

Olga Pyleva

These substances are very active in terms of having an effect on [Terrance].

John Bederka

It was a surprise to learn just how few physicians use gold-standard practices in their testing. Only a small number actually knew which drugs are detectable on a routine urine drug-test screening panel, and what substances can cause false-positive screens.

Dr. Sharon Levy

Most of these last four substances have pronounced bitter, sour or metallic tastes.

Jeannine Delwiche

No matter what happens, I know I did not cheat or take any illegal substances. Keep in mind when the topic of steroids and drugs surface in the sport, James Toney states there is no need and has never been a need for me to indulge at all in any illegal substances to help me beat anybody.

James Toney

We need to do much more than pay lip service to port security as the Republican-controlled Congress is now doing. We must put in place both the funding and the personnel resources to ensure that all cargo containers entering U.S. ports, especially high-risk ports, are screened for radiation and other dangerous substances.

Diane Farrell

We're always concerned about children being exposed to substances. Certainly we're working closely with law enforcement.

Debbie Morgan

It's troubling. It means the public and environmental protection agencies like us will have less information about toxic substances being released into our environment.

Steve Owens

Back end capacity is relatively tight, mainly due to raw material issues and the pending Restriction of Hazardous Substances and Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment environmental regulations.

Klaus Rinnen

[She] believes states should have the right to regulate dangerous substances in food. She believes they should continue to have this right.

Scott Gerber

Hopefully, these reference materials will also provide consumers with another tool that can assure them that the products they buy and use are not adulterated in any way and don't contain harmful levels of potentially toxic substances.

Elisa Zied

They could have dealt with it, probably, without raising the ire of some of the people in the environmental movement if all they'd done was to say that the section is titled 'Toxics and other substances of concern.'

Elizabeth May