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One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
Frank Zappa
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo Galilei
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I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.
B. F. Skinner
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
Ben Jonson
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A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.
Ludwig von Mises
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.
Quincy Jones
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Quentin Crisp
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
Abraham Cowley
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
Paracelsus
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
Nas
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
Benjamin Disraeli
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I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
John F. Kennedy
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If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.
Mitch Hedberg
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We treat a planet at crisis point as an externality that can be shunted into a future generation. We continue to act as if we had the natural resources of several planets, not one.
Winnie Byanyima
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
Iris Murdoch
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We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets.
Neil Young
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In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Just as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its parts persist in their motions, so the smaller systems of bodies also seem to be set in motion by other forces and their particles to be variously moved in relation to each other and, especially, by the electric force.
Isaac Newton
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I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.
Italo Calvino
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We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.
Ray Bradbury
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I would have volunteered to work at Netscape. It was the center node of this new technology and the commercial ecosystem of the Internet.
Reid Hoffman
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
Hilaire Belloc
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Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.
Alexander Herzen
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my pen cannot contain you,it spills all over heart's diary,confessions of my blue spirit,how you possess every page,with your beauty of sonnets, mere paper becomes holy grail.
Chijioke Amu-Nnadi
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The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other Stars.
Albert Pike
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Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.
Stephen Leacock
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Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.
Giuseppe Mazzini
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Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.
Johannes Kepler
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Jonathan Swift
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