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«The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Universe,
World
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bunch, bunches, depending, depending on, grapes, on it, planets, revolve, revolves, revolve around, revolving, ripen, ripened, ripens, The Planets
«We women don't care too much about getting our pictures on money as long as we can get our hands on it»
«The formula for a happy marriage? It's the same as the one for living in California: when you find a fault, don't dwell on it»
Author: Jay Trachman
| About:
Marriage
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California, dwell, dwell on, fault, formula, formulas, marriage, on it, The Formula
«Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.»
«To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go»
Author: Mary Oliver
| About:
Living,
Love
| Keywords:
able, abler, ablest, against, against time, boned, bones, comes, depends, go, go to, hold, in this, In this World, knowing, let, let it go, let me know, live, live in, mortal, must, on it, own, The Time, things, this, three, threes, time, Time Life, To do, To Live, when the time comes
«The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Judge, Jurist)
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bigot, bigots, contract, contracted, contracting, on it, pupil, shine, Shine On, The Eye
«The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.»
«This planet has -- or rather had -- a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
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another planet, concerned, green, greener, greens, largely, living, Movements, odd, odder, oddest, Odd and, on it, on the whole, our planet, paper, pieces, Piece By Piece, planet, pretty, pretty much, problem, small, solutions, suggested, suggesting, these, The greens, The People, The Time, unhappier, unhappiest, unhappy, whole
«The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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acted, as a matter of fact, collect, on it, sensation, sense experience, surface, the senses