Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
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Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there – then I realised how much I liked it.
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Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams.
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The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.
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Not that I went into the Olympics with any doubt, but my holiday plans afterwards depended on how well I did - bronze, silver or gold.
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The best leaders don't set timid and selfish goals but instead set bold targets that may be harder to achieve.
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Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.
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Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
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Audiences want and need a shared viewing experience.
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Conservatives like to insist that their judges are strict constructionists, giving the Constitution and statutes their precise meaning and no more, while judges like Ms. Sotomayor are activists. But there is no magic right way to interpret terms like 'free speech' or 'due process' - or potato chip.
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A great revolution is hardest of all on the great revolutionists.
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κρεῖσσον γὰρ εἰσάπαξ θανεῖνἢ τὰς ἁπάσας ἡμέρας πάσχειν κακῶς.
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I watch a lot of TV - 'Perfect Strangers,' 'Family Matters,' 'Who's the Boss?' - then I go over my notes in the script, lock it into my head and go to bed.
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The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
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[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it is probable, since the sensational triumphs of Einstein, that stellar astronomy and atomic physics are the only sciences which stand higher in popular estimation.
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People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.
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For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
