Galileo Galilei Quotes
When the moon is ninety degrees away from the sun it sees but half the earth illuminated (the western half). For the other (the eastern half) is enveloped in night. Hence the moon itself is illuminated less brightly from the earth, and as a result its secondary light appears fainter to us.
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
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Religion is induced insanity.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
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If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.
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I've known Bret Michaels forever.
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Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
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For any athlete growing up, the Olympics is the one thing you watch with your family, and it's the one thing you dream about. Seeing your country's flag go up as you get a gold medal is the best thing you can achieve.
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I talk too much.
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Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.
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Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.
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Mutos enim nasci et egere omni ratione satius fuisset quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.
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A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.
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Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.
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A planet of playthingsWe dance on the strings of powers we cannot perceiveThe stars aren't aligned or the gods are malignedBlame is better to give than receive - Freewill (1980)
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You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more decisions, and so forth, 'round and 'round.
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The truth about love is that you don't always fall in love with whom you are supposed to fall in love with. Love just hits you. It is a transcendent thing. Sometimes it is your best friend's husband and sometimes it's your father. It's weird. But that's a fact of life.
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p. 103
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And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up.
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I will build you a castle with a tower so highIt reaches the moon.I'll gather melodies from birdies that flyAnd compose you a tune.Give you lovin' warm as Mama's oven.And if that don't do,Then I'll try something new.
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When the moon is ninety degrees away from the sun it sees but half the earth illuminated (the western half). For the other (the eastern half) is enveloped in night. Hence the moon itself is illuminated less brightly from the earth, and as a result its secondary light appears fainter to us.
