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		Is it not reasonable to think that by far the greater part is solid and dark, and that this immense globe is encompassed with a thin covering of that resplendent substance from which the sun would seem to derive the whole of his vivifying heat and energy?
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Agnes Mary Clerke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Edmund White 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Rachel Kushner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ted Olson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Camille Paglia 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Yu Chui Yee 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of that energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you've got to be careful. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				D'Angelo 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ramsey Clark 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jack LaLanne 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Vash Young 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				J. P. Morgan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's like running a marathon race. We train all hours of the day. When you are taking a bath, you are thinking of the flight. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Kalpana Chawla 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Adam Gopnik 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I was 16 when I started modelling. It wasn't planned, but nothing in my life has or ever will be planned. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Nargis Fakhri 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Vijay Mallya 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we're so happy in America I actually can't see us ever leaving... People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Victoria Beckham 
			 
			
				Spice Girls  
			
			
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Something theoretical in the past may become evident and established in the present or in the future. It is a self-evident fact that creation has an innate tendency towards perfection, and it is through this that creation is bound to the law of development or gradual perfection. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Said Nursi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Edgar Winter 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Camryn Manheim