Archimedes Quotes
The perimeter of the earth is about 3,000,000 stadia and not greater.
Archimedes
Quotes to Explore
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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
Jackie DeShannon
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
Oprah Winfrey
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
Imran Khan
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I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'
C. C. H. Pounder
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
Lana Parrilla
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
Barbara Corcoran
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.
Irving Babbitt
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In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.
Ingrid Betancourt
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
Vic Snyder
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
Taron Egerton
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
Barbara Kruger
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You can't force something like that. But we have encouraged our audience, because we avoid the confrontation of regular rock concerts: us up here, you down there. Instead, we're looking for interaction.
Page McConnell
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As I've gotten older, I've realized the element that sounds like The Gaslight Anthem that's mine is always going to be me. The other three-fourths of it is going to be the other guys. I can't stop doing what I do naturally, whether I'm in The Gaslight Anthem or my own thing.
Brian Fallon
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I'm old enough to remember seeing James Brown live.
Christopher Priest
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We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves.
C. S. Lewis
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The perimeter of the earth is about 3,000,000 stadia and not greater.
Archimedes
