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

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Work
  • Rejection
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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
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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
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  • Home

• A wise traveler never despises his own country.

  

  William Hazlitt
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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
  • Tourist
  • Suitcase

• Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Men
  • Country
  • Traveler

• It’s not about the amount of time you devote but rather what you devote to that time that counts.

  

  Neil Patel
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  • Rather
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• Most of my work for the past 25 years has been devoted to organizing demonstrations, benefits and campaigns, many of which have had the effect of bringing a policy debate to public focus or moving a political agenda forward. It's become a cliché to say 'think globally and act locally,' but it works.

  

  Peter Yarrow
  • Work
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• Eve took me to teach me how to fence," Claire said. "Not so much how to fence as how to hold a sword and not drop it," Eve said. "And then I fought Oliver to a draw." Shane fluttered his hands. "Oh, and then we were all elected as ice princesses and asked to go to Disneyland!" "Laugh all you want. I'm going to look way better in full skirts than you," Eve said.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Princess
  • Fence
  • Disneyland

• Juggling is a conversation with the stick, the body, the brain.

  

  Michael Moschen
  • Body
  • Conversation
  • Stick

• 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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