Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes

For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.

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• Demonstrate to your customer the difference between price and cost. The price is what it takes to purchase the item. The cost is the amount the customer eventually pays. They are not the same.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Differences
  • Pay
  • Cost

• I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away with the amount of very opinionated politics I get away with.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • People
  • Politics
  • Away

• There is no conceivable amount of money worth telling the world that you were beaten up by Liza Minnelli.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Up
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• In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Work
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• I wasn't sure when to push it or what to expect. Now I know what to expect. Hopefully, I'll be able start mixing everything together and see how it goes. As of now, I'm planning on pitching opening day. If not, I'll pitch on the fifth day. I guarantee I'll have one spot in the rotation.

  

  Pedro Martinez
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• A Killer Brand exists when an entity derives a disproportionate amount of success in its category because of a compelling and differentiated expectation that comes to be associated with its name.

  

  Frank Lane
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• We know all about what they have done and the amount of success they have been able to achieve. It is truly one of the top programs in the nation. They flew someone in on a private plane to watch us play Mineral Area. That should tell you they have a big-time program.

  

  Jay Harrington
  • Success
  • Nation
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• Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Knowledge
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  • Various

• No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.

  

  William Cowper
  • Acceptance
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• The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

  

  Virginia Woolf
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• Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
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• I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Country
  • Family
  • Home

• A wise traveler never despises his own country.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Country
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• Jeff always says, "In the cinema, everybody goes to sci-fi. Those are the biggest movies. But, in television, nobody wants to touch it with a barge pole." It's strange. I think it's because maybe there's a legacy of television shows that depicted sci-fi in a certain way that turns off a lot of viewers, so maybe there's a negative connotation.

  

  J. H. Wyman
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• A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Speech
  • Leaves
  • Traveler

• This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the Pythagorean believes that, like the sun and moon, it revolves around the fire in an oblique circle. Heraclides of Pontus and Ecphantus the Pythagorean make the earth move, not in a progressive motion, but like a wheel in rotation from west to east around its own center."

  

  Plutarch
  • Believes
  • Motion
  • Rotation

• The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Shows

• Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler.

  

  Ira Levin
  • Traveler
  • Suitcase
  • Tourist

• A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Change
  • Idea
  • Word

• If I am a son of God, nothing but God will satisfy my soul; no amount of comfort, no amount of ease, no amount of pleasure, will give me peace or rest. If I had the full cup of all the world's joys held up to me, and could drain it to the dregs, I should still remain thirsty if I had not God.

  

  Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
  • God
  • Giving
  • Pleasure

• No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Beauty
  • Fail
  • Houses

• Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • People
  • Joy
  • Facts

• Cowboys that's American, it means boys who milk the cow - call them 'Stockmen'.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • American
  • Milk
  • Cow

• For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
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