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This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.
So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it.
Changes in clouds and rainfall can overwhelm what little effect CO2-water vapour has on temperature.
The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.
Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death.
The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.
I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.
There is some CO2-water vapor feedback. But it's not operating on a global scale. The modellers cannot accurately separate water vapour from the effects of clouds and rainfall.
A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire.
GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked. . . .
The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have attacks of the vapours when they see it misapplied. The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.
