Archimedes Quotes
The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis.
Archimedes
Quotes to Explore
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
Ian Mckellen
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January 30th will be a historic day for the Middle East and the world. The Iraqi people will take the next step toward a free and democratic society as they place their votes for a transitional Iraqi government.
Dana Rohrabacher
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What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'
Olivia De Havilland
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Seth Green, he and I are trying to figure out how this all came about. Because we don't remember what came first, the chicken or the egg, no pun intended. But I don't remember what came first, 'Robot Chicken' or our friendship, because we've known each other for so long.
Katee Sackhoff
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One year you go in for auditions, and everybody thinks you're the queen of comedy, and the next year, you're so 'yesterday,' and it's not because you've done anything, or your ability has changed; you haven't been in work because you've been putting on weight and then trying to lose it.
Sally Phillips
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
Harold Pinter
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I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up.
Ice Cube
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Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.
Jack Levine
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Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
Lao Tzu
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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
Clare Boothe Luce
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Once we can see how this question of freedom of the will has been vitiated by post-romantic philosophy, with its inbuilt tendency to laziness and boredom, we can also see how it came about that existentialism found itself in a hole of it’s own digging, and how the philosophical developments since then have amounted to walking in circles round that hole.
Colin Wilson
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'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.'
Arthur Scargill
