Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.

Nicolaus Copernicus

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• The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.

  

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• I think that it's really incredible, growing up and being able to have all these people who really look up to the work that I do. It's really cool that I have such awesome fans, and I can't thank them enough. I get on my Twitter and Facebook every day, and I see such awesome things.

  

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• Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.

  

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• I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset.

  

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• If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
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• Music has always been really important to me.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
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• If the awards buzz is happening, and it's coming from critics and people in the business and all of that, that's only more good news.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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• We have a constitutional republic, not a democracy.

  

  Ted Yoho
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• For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.

  

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• Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.

  

  E. T. Bell
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• It's very hard to behave naturally when you know people recognise you. On the other hand, I still sometimes get upgraded in hotels because someone used to like me back in the day, which is still pretty amazing.

  

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• It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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• The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.

  

  J. I. Packer
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• Obstacles come to instruct, not obstruct.

  

  Brian Tracy
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• As Christians, we are to be newsboys and not editors of the gospel.

  

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• Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

  

  Aristotle
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• Writing is very hard: there will be weeks where I have nothing to write, and days I will get out three issues of the comic book as far as the outlines. It is a matter of there is nothing you can do about it – if the inspiration hits, it hits. If it doesn’t, there is nothing you can do to bring it out.

  

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• I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• I find that even the simplest of dresses, if it has the correct seaming and the correct fabric, whatever shape or size you are, it can change the way you hold yourself.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Size
  • Heavens
  • Massive