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  1. James Patterson _ First Love

    It doesn't matter what the end looks like-what matters is that it came. Bam, you're done. But life, Axi? There are degrees of life. You can live it well or half-asleep. You can go sledding down a sand dune, or you can spend your life in front of the TV. And I don't mean to sound like a stupid after-school special, but you have to keep living the way we did these last weeks. Risk, Axi. That's the secret. Risk everything."I nodded, trying not to cry again. "Okay. But I might not keep stealing cars.""That's all right," he said.
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  2. Sydney Herbert Evershed

    In despair, I offer your readers their choice of the following definitions of entropy. My authorities are such books and journals as I have by me at the moment.{a} Entropy is that portion of the intrinsic energy of a system which cannot be converted into work by even a perfect heat engine.-Clausius.{b} Entropy is that portion of the intrinsic energy which can be converted into work by a perfect engine.-Maxwell, following Tait.{c} Entropy is that portion of the intrinsic energy which is not converted into work by our imperfect engines.-Swinburne.{d} Entropy {in a volume of gas} is that which remains constant when heat neither enters nor leaves the gas.-W. Robinson.{e} Entropy may be called the 'thermal weight', temperature being called the 'thermal height.'-Ibid.{f} Entropy is one of the factors of heat, temperature being the other.-Engineering
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