"Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves."

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Source : Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “On the revolutions”

Nicolaus Copernicus

#Moving Quotes #Opposites Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“Ðll I need is one life, one try, one breath, I'm one man. What I stand for speaks for itself...they don't understand.”
“Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.”
“Even in South Africa, the Commonwealth were not doing anything, and their attitude was to tolerate apartheid in South Africa. There was a lot of lip service being paid to the need to stop this practice, but nothing was done.”

Source : "Interview with Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad". Interview with Sue Onslow, commonwealth-oral-history-project.blogs.sas.ac.uk. February 11, 2015.
“Public â€˜career feministsâ€™ have been more concerned with getting more women into â€˜boardrooms,â€™ when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms, and none of them are on fire,”
“When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The way a good rod first flexes and then extends its muscles as the line quickens, tightens, rises off the water and does figure eights in mid-air is one of the miracles of humanly applied dynamics.”
“Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.”
“Let me close by bearing witness (and my nine decades on this earth fully qualify me to say this) that the older I get, the more I realize that family is the center of life and is the key to eternal happiness.”

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