William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo."
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Mercury
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Freddie Mercury
Musician, Singer
"I'm a Freddie Mercury fan. (In response to an interviewer backstage at a Queen concert at the LA Forum, who asked: Can I tell my viewers that Michael Jackson is a Queen fan?"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn."
Johnny Depp
Actor, Producer
"I was really intrigued by them, became fascinated by them because they were asking questions that couldn't be answered almost, or were making statements that you couldn't quite understand. Like, 'I'm investigating things that begin with the letter M.' That took me through a whole stratosphere of possibilities, and doing a little research and discovered that the M is mercury."
Diogenes Laertius
Philosopher
"Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals."
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"My father names me Autolycus, who being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles."
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"There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determinefor the curious their standing in the world. These are the chamberlains of the lesser gods. Accept their coldness as an omen of grace with the loftier deities, and allow them all their privilege."
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"Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response"
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"The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities"
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"Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good."
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